In anticipation of today's meeting
between the Federal Government
and ASUU representatives, the
President of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has stated that
the union will not back down on the ongoing strike if a
compromise is not reached.
Dr. Fagge made this statement in a telephone interview
earlier today. He maintained that the strike action was
not embarked upon just for the demands, but for the
Federal Government to honour a Memorandum of
Understanding which it signed in 2012 with ASUU.
The ASUU President: "Who's talking about demands
here? We presented our demands in 2006 and it took us
three years to get it into an agreement.
"The FG signed the MOU in 2012, that's what we are
asking them to honour, period. The strike action will not
continue only if they implement the MOU we had last
year."
The ASUU President further noticed that "If we call off
the strike when the MOU has not been implemented, of
what use was the strike action in the first place? We are
holding on until everything is sorted out."
The strike by the lecturers lasts for forty-nine days if,
ASUU does not reach an agreement with the Federal
Government at the meeting scheduled to hold later today

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