Tony Okafor, Awka

The Academic Staff Union of Universities may join the Nigeria Labour Congress in the ongoing industrial action.

The Owerri Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof Uzo Onyebinama, disclosed this at a press conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.

While debunking that the strikes were not sponsored by the opposition parties, Onyebinama said the reason of ASUU strike was as a result of the Federal Government’s inability to fulfill the 2009 agreement with the union on the welfare of its members.

His statement read in part, “You will recall that the 2009 FGN —ASUU Agreement made provision for the re-negotiation of the Agreement every three (3) years.

“Consequently, the first renegotiation of the Agreement should have been in 2012. This was not to be. The first renegotiation of the Agreement commenced in March 2017.

“As we speak now, the renegotiation exercise has broken down since May 2018 (after 14months), due largely to the deliberate tactics adopted by the leader of the Government Team, Dr. Wale Babalakin, to scuttle the renegotiation, by jettisoning the principle of collective bargaining and the gains of previous agreements, memorandum of understanding and memorandum of action.

“In addition, the government team insisted that education ought to be funded from ‘diverse sources’ and consequently proposed the establishment of an Education Bank and a Students’ Loan Scheme.”

The Union urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, provide a platform for the leadership of ASUU to engage State Governors on issues of proliferation of universities, underfunding of state universities, undue interference in the administration of state universities, and the non-implementation of various components of the 2009 Agreement in many state universities.

The union said it would be left with no other choice than to embark on an industrial action if the contentious issues were not resolved.

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Wow.. 2nd ftc since I joined nairaland

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I doubt if PUNCH could give this whack report.

This is not even about any agreement between the FG and ASUU. This strike is about NLC in which ASUU,ASUP, COEASU are all NLC affiliates. It's about the FG's failure to increase the national minimum wage and not the baloney stated here. ASUU is part of NLC and they are in this together.

Just heard from a lecturer friend...this news is authentic.

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So were they not supposed to be part of it before? Yeye people.

Hmmm

which kind mumu reporting be this.is ASSU not under NLC mumu people

I thought Baba just dole out #20Bn to ASUU some days back, so why are they joining NLC?

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nothing new Nigeria dey strike since 2015

I'm tired of this country called Nigeria.

Yeye politicians.

Before nko, nor bi only strike den sabi?

Whatever shaa

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ASUU might be under NLC but their demand are quite different so they shouldn't jeopardize the Smooth calendar most institutions has tried to maintain for some time now

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We are talking about minimum wage and nationwide strike, the self-centered professor is talking about ASUU 2009 agreement.

nonsense.

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