The Academic Staff Union of Universities declares it’ll be going on an indefinite strike after a meeting of the union’s National Executive Council held on Sunday in Abuja.
ASUU started the strike on Monday, February 14, 2022, and has been lingering for over six months. According to ASUU, the strike is in protest against the government’s failure to release revitalization funds for universities, failure to release the white paper report of the visitation panel to universities, and the failure to deploy the University Transparency Accountability System for the payment of salaries and allowances of lecturers.
The union’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed the outcome of the NEC meeting in a statement on Monday titled, ‘ASUU strikes are to save public universities.’
In the statement, Osodeke said the NEC regretted that the union had experienced deceit of the highest level for over five years, adding that the government engaged ASUU in fruitless and unending negotiation without a display of fidelity.
In view of the foregoing, and following extensive deliberations on government’s response to the resolution of February 14, 2022, so far, NEC concluded that the demands of the union had not been satisfactorily addressed. Consequently, NEC resolved to transmute the roll-over strike to a comprehensive, total and indefinite strike action beginning from 12.01am Monday, August 29, 2022.
The statement read.
It was also learned that beyond the indefinite strike, some lecturers had advised that the union should boycott further talks with the federal government until when another government is formed after the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29, 2023.
“Many lecturers believe that there is no need to keep dissipating energy talking to government officials because they are not ready to listen. I know that many lecturers here in ABU and others at BUK, Federal University, Dutse, and in the South are of the opinion that ASUU should also foreclose talking to the government until after this government leaves. It is not that we don’t have empathy. We are all affected. I am also affected because I have children in a public university and they have been at home for over six months. I have also not been receiving my salary but the fact is that the government should do the right thing to save the universities from collapsing,” a Nigerian lecturer said.
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