*BREAKING NEWS*

*ASUU threaten to Embark on indefinite strike*

_ASUU threatens to embark on fresh strike Published on August 8, 2018 By Ifreke Inyang_

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) rose from its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Calabar yesterday and said it could no longer guarantee that its members would continue to work if Wole Babalakin, negotiating on the part of the Federal Government, was not sacked.

Addressing journalists at the University of Calabar, ASUU President Biodun Ogunyemi said that Babalakin had become a stumbling block to peaceful negotiations and implementation of the union’s demands.

Ogunyemi warned that the union might soon embark on strike if Babalakin was not replaced.

“Our Union has had series of negotiation meetings but it has been a fruitless exercise. The Chairman of the Government Renegotiating Team, in the person of Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), has constituted a stumbling block in the process of the renegotiation.

“He has arrogantly exhibited “I-know-it-all” attitude and also conducted himself as a judge, instead of a negotiator. With unwarranted arrogance, he has disregarded the cardinal principles of collective bargaining, deliberately slowed the process and made mockery of the core tenets of industrial democracy.

“He has arrogated to himself the power to decide matters that should be collectively debated, analysed, and agreed upon by the two parties. He has also consistently attempted to substitute core constitutional provisions of Nigeria on education, including university education, by market principles of trading in and purchasing higher education, putting Nigerian children in debt peonage in order to acquire higher education.

“This situation is not acceptable to the Union. ASUU has tried through several entreaties to make him see reason and return to the path of collective bargaining and respect for the Constitutional provisions on Education to no avail. The Chairman of the Government team has amply demonstrated that his major interest is to force ASUU to accept the dependence of the education of our youth on debts whereas the Constitution promises free education,” he said.

The national trustee of ASUU, Dr. Dipo Fashina and a former president of NLC, Hassan Sunmonu, said the union had been patient with the committee, but that had been overstretched, saying “anything can happen anytime from now if our letter to the Minister of Education was not addressed properly.



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https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2018/08/08/ASUU-threatens-embark-fresh-strike/amp/

long overdue, since government only listens to protests and strikes

Thanks God I'm not longer a student, why do they keep making unrealistic demands at the detriment of students? its quite disheartening to say the least.

time to develop my business
ASUU help me and make it a year

Not again

Dont do this plzzzzzz

please o. dont strike, my mates are in 200l am stil in 100l second semester, i rep uniben

No cause for alarm we are not going on strike. Things can change anyway

asuustrike2009:
No cause for alarm we are not going on strike. Things can change anyway

Haha


See monicker
if we students get hold of you ehn

abeg. close down this thread

Bradiyung:
please o. dont strike, my mates are in 200l am stil in 100l second semester, i rep uniben

my mates are in final year, im still in 100l.
Rep unibest

the way strike delay me ehhn!! naso I jejely pack leave Nigeria.