ASUU strike: When FG has no confidence in its renegotiation committees

The federal government inaugurated Prof. Munzali Jubrin's renegotiation committee in December 2020. The Committee did its job and the Report was submitted in May 2021. The report was left gathering dust at the ministry of education after submission. The government only remembers the report after ASUU declared a strike in February 2022, which was about 9 months later. They checked the report and were like, no the renegotiation must be renegotiated. They technically rejected what was negotiated on their behalf and the work done by those highly respected Nigerians ended in the Dustbin.

Then, the FG inaugurated Prof. Nimi Briggs' renegotiation committee in March 2022 to renegotiate the renegotiated report with ASUU. They got 3 months to do the job. ASUU initially resisted meeting the Briggs' committee with a stand that the renegotiation was already concluded with the Jubrin's committee. I remember Ngige telling NLC to call ASUU to order. The second renegotiation is concluded and the Report was submitted last month (June 2022).

Meanwhile, Ngige has been quiet but he came out today to reject what Prof. Nimi Briggs' committee has negotiated on the government's behalf. He said there is no agreement yet with ASUU-FG. He said all alone with the Prof Briggs' Committee, ASUU started fixing their salaries and allowances to the exclusion of the statutory government ministries and agencies that manage the entire annual finances of the government.

The FG doesn't trust the committee it set up to renegotiate. Most likely, the Briggs' committee report is also going to the dustbin.

The government never had the intention to renegotiate with ASUU. They were just buying time with the inauguration of different renegotiation committees. When the committee was set up, just like it happened in 2020, Ngige urged ASUU to call off the strike while renegotiation continues. He even asked NLC to call ASUU to order. He possibly thought ASUU is a union of dumb people. When ASUU did not pay attention to that, Ngige sent a memo to IPPIS to suspend the payment of the salaries of lecturers. The idea is to use hunger to force the suspension of the strike. That still didn't work. They are trying to use emotional blackmail.

The president's "enough is enough" speech in Daura is one of the emotional blackmails that did not work, unfortunately. And Ngige said there is no agreement with ASUU yet on a day that the strike is 5 months old. Mal Adamu Adamu, the education minister is quiet as usual. I was actually hoping the strike will end before the end of this month. But the words from the president and Ngige, the Labour minister, it appears the journey is still far.

Dear Nigerians, especially the students, Buhari is a Muslim and Ngige is a Christian but they don't care that university students have spent 5 months at home and still counting. As you fight over the religion of politicians, just know that irrespective of their religion, you are not their priority. They are just using you.

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To me, my concern is, why did ASUU asked the relevant government MDA's to recuse themselves from the renegotiation panel. Will ASUU pay itself? I think this should be our concern now.

Emmamay10:
To me, my concern is, why did ASUU asked the relevant government MDA's to recuse themselves from the renegotiation panel. Will ASUU pay itself? I think this should be our concern now.

If you watch the ASUU President's interview on ChannelsTV this morning, you will realize that Ngige is a perpetual lier, he lies more than Baba Lai himself
Ngige should present a document that shows that those officials recuse themselves (or were asked to, by ASUU) during the meeting?
Ngige is simply making himself more relevant than the Minister of Education, who actually should be the main actor in all these negotiations!

sinkhole:
If you watch the ASUU President's interview on ChannelsTV this morning, you will realize that Ngige is a perpetual lier, he lies more than Baba Lai himself
Ngige should present a document that shows that those officials recuse themselves (or were asked to, by ASUU) during the meeting?
Ngige is simply making himself more relevant than the Minister of Education, who actually should be the main actor in all these negotiations!

Well, I'm yet to listen to the latest interview granted by ASUU president or read about it. All I know is that both parties should be reasonable and act responsibly. This strike is killing and hellish.

If given the chance again, ASUU will ask for 500% increase in wages

sinkhole:
If you watch the ASUU President's interview on ChannelsTV this morning, you will realize that Ngige is a perpetual lier, he lies more than Baba Lai himself
Ngige should present a document that shows that those officials recuse themselves (or were asked to, by ASUU) during the meeting?
Ngige is simply making himself more relevant than the Minister of Education, who actually should be the main actor in all these negotiations!

The 3 months rollover will elapse exactly this time next month.
It was 1, 2, then 3. Following that pattern i think they will add 4 months rollover.