Union wants clergy, monarchs,
others to prevail on FG

THE ongoing industrial action embarked
on by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) might not be over
anytime soon as the Federal
Government’s re-negotiating committee has failed to reach a
compromise with the union.

Instead, the meeting adjourned for another one week to enable
the sub-committee recently raised to conclude its work on the
details of the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement.

This was made known by ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Isa-Faggae,
in an interview with journalists in Abuja after the meeting with
the Presidential Implementation Committee on NEEDS
Assessment in Nigerian Universities, chaired by Benue State
Governor, Gabriel Suswam.

Meanwhile, apparently foreseeing that the Federal Government
was in no hurry to cede ground, ASUU yesterday invited the
clergy, traditional rulers and stakeholders to prevail on the
Federal Government to respect the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement
and to make integrity its watchword.

Acting Chairman of Enugu State University of Science and
Technology (ESUT) chapter of ASUU, Uche Omeje, told newsmen
in Enugu that is “demeaning, despicable, and an expression of
lack of integrity on government’s part to renege on its promise.”

According to Omeje, “ASUU and Nigerians are worried by the
institutionalised falsehood and the lack of integrity exhibited by
the Federal Government and hence condemns this perfidy in its
entirety.”

He expressed the determination of union members to continue
with the ongoing strike until government implements the
agreement and memorandum of understanding it freely entered
with the union in 2012.

However, Suswam was optimistic that the end of the strike was
in sight, noting that the issues in contention would be squarely
addressed when the committee reassembles next Tuesday.

Yesterday’s meeting, which took place at the Benue Governor’s
Lodge at Asokoro, and attended by the two ministers in the
Ministry of Education, Executive Secretary of the National
Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okojie, officials of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Tertiary Education Trust Fund
(TETFund) and the Senate, representatives of other varsity
unions such as NASU, SSANU and NAATS, among others, did not
make appreciable progress.
Issa-Fagee told newsmen: “You could see that today’s meeting
was very short because the sub-committee has not finished its
work. We are going to resume again on Tuesday next week to
look at what the committee has as a final report.”
According to him, the committee is supposed to provide the
union with a template on how best to look at what had been
presented by government in terms of making provisions for
infrastructure rehabilitation in the universities.
Asked how close the union was to calling off the strike, he said:
“I keep telling you that I decide how to cross my bridge when I
reach (it). There is nothing on the table; when the sub-committee
finishes its work and tables it before us, we will look at it.”

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This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a maladorous excresence of mobocracy. With all tarmangant ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy,our knowledgia centura is enveloped in a paraphlegic crinkum crankum. Therefore, ASUU, cest in dejavu, dejavu peret ologomabia

Mehnnnnn.......dis strike is becoming smting else,wt type of govt do we have......neva sincere