WE CANNOT SUSPEND STRIKE - ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
on Sunday, 23th December, 2018 dashed the hope of millions of Nigerians stating that it had no plans
to suspend the eight-week-old strike insisting the Federal government had not
shown any commitment to addressing its demands.
Addressing newsmen at ASUU, University of
Lagos secretariat, the National President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi,
disclosed that since the start of the strike on November 4, the union met six
times with government agents and there was no clear commitment from government
to resolve the issues in contention.
Flanked by the ASUU Lagos zone Coordinator,
Prof Olusiji Sowande, and other branch chairmen, Prof Ogunyemi asked the
Federal government replace the Chairman of the Renegotiation Committee on the
FG/ASUU 2009 agreement, Dr. Wale Babalakin, based on its experience during over
one year of negotiation.
Ogunyemi disclosed that government appeared
to have adopted the “keep-them-talking” strategy while deceiving the public
that progress was being made thus a partial agreement had been reached between
the government and the union.
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