The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) might be going on another prolonged strike after the ASUU national President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi said that the Federal Government has done nothing about the 2019 Memorandum of Action that was signed.



While addressing the newsmen in Abuja, the ASUU national President gave an update on the present newly signed agreement with the government and he said that N25billion was said to have been confirmed by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu but no fund has been received yet.

Ogunyemi further said that the allocated fund was actually meant to be a part-payment of the Earned Academic Allowances and was also expected to have been disbursed to us since February based on the agreement but this fund was not allocated yet.

The ASUU President quoted below;

He said, “Since information on the amounts mentioned in the media went round, the ASUU has been inundated with enquiries on the union’s perspective to the story. Funding for the revitalisation of public universities has for years been of very high priority to ASUU.

“Reaching an agreement with the Federal Government has often been a frustrating journey for our union. It is often marked with protests, strikes and requires a conscious and focused engagement. The 2001 agreement, which gave birth to the 2009 agreement, was not an exemption. The exception here is the personality leading the government negotiation team. The current leadership of the government team clearly lacks the academic disposition and humility needed to undertake such task.

“Our members enjoy their work and hate to see any disruption in the smooth running of our universities. However, the level of frustration occasioned by the lackadaisical attitude of the government towards meeting the terms of the 2019 Memorandum of Action that was freely signed with our union is increasingly becoming unbearable.

“We, therefore, call on all Nigerian patriots, parents and students including the Nigeria Labour Congress to prevail on the government to keep to the terms of our agreement. Otherwise, our union should not be held responsible for any disruption in the system.”

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The ASUU strike thing in this country is just an offshoot of the cabal based system we run in our institutions.
Most schools can't open their account books to their sponsors - FG, but want the FG to sponsor them endlessly. it is like a ward who can't properly account for what he spends his or her pocket money for to the sponsor but is demanding that more money be handed to him.

As big as Harvard is, they still render account of how public donation to their endowment fund is being spent. Now tell me, what are our schools hiding from the public? Look at LAUTECH for example.

CodeTemplar:
The ASUU strike thing in this country is just an offshoot of the cabal based system we run in our institutions.
Most schools can't open their account books to their sponsors - FG, but want the FG to sponsor them endlessly. It is like a ward who can't properly account for what he spends his or her pocket money for to the sponsor but is demanding that more money be handed to him.

As big as Harvard is, it still renders account of how public donation to its endowment fund is being spent. Now tell me, what are our schools hiding from the public? Look at LAUTECH for example.

No proper accountability because the vc's are appointed or selected from within. The idea of autonomy by ASUU members was for their selfish gain.