The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described as baseless and speculative, reports that the strike embarked upon by the union would be called off this Thursday.
National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, said he was surprised to hear that the union was going to call off the strike on Thursday when the issues tabled before government had not been resolved.
ASUU had embarked on an indefinite strike over the inability of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement it willingly entered into with the union.
“There is nothing like that (suspending the strike). I am also surprised to hear people say that we are going to call off the strike,” Faggae said.
“Our members have made it categorically clear what they want. This meeting we had with government on Friday at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, is just exploratory.
“We are trying to look at issues holistically and see how we are going to address them. So assignments were given to various people that attended the meeting and the expectation is that we will meet tomorrow (today), Monday and look at the assignment given and also lookat it on Thursday again.
“So, that is why I’m surprised to hear people say that we are going to suspend strike on Thursday. The mandate of our members is very clear. So, we will wait and see what the Monday and Thursday meetings unfold and then we report back to our membershttp://gistofnigeria..com/2013/07/no-plans-to-call-off-strike-ASUU.html

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