L-R – President Goodluck Jonathan in a handshake
with the President of Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Dr.Nasiru Isa Fagge. With them is Prof.
Biodun Ogunyemi during the meeting with the
President at the State House Abuja on Monday.
PHOTO: AKIN OLADOKUN.
ASUU STRIKE LATEST: FG Bows To ASUU, N200b Paid
Into CBN for Varsities
SOURCE: PM NEWS LAGOS
Barely twenty four hours to the expiration of the 4
December ultimatum Federal Government gave
members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) to resume classes or be sacked, the federal
government this morning bowed to one of the
demands of the lecturers by paying N200 billion into
an account opened with the Central Bank of Nigeria,
CBN.
Disclosing this on Channels Television programme
‘Sunrise Daily’ this morning, Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior
Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs
confirmed that the N200b demanded by ASUU to be
paid into an account with the CBN has been done.
The amount is meant for renewal of infrastructure
facilities in public universities in the country.
But ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Fage Isa, accused the
government of being insincere in its dealing with the
striking lecturers. He urged the government to
respond to its letter demanding the fulfillment of
some conditions for it to call off the strike.
Okupe said that from the government’s perspective,
everything that needs to be done has been done and
whether the strike would be called off or not now lies
in the hands of the leadership of ASUU.
He said that most of the demands of the Academic
Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, have been
agreed upon at the 13-hour meeting they had with
the President in October.
“At the end of that meeting, the Government
proposed that everything that has been agreed
should be put in a memorandum of agreement and
that the two parties should sign, but the leadership
of ASUU declined and said instead of that, they would
rather have a letter of comfort expressing everything
that has been resolved therein, and that will suffice
for them.”
According to him, the Government agreed to their
request and issued the said letter based on the
agreement that the strike would be called off within
7 days. However, this did not happen “in spite of the
fact that the ASUU leadership presented the letter of
comfort to its chapters nationwide and a clear
majority of them endorsed the resolutions reached
and actually were more inclined towards calling off
the strike.”
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