ASUU postpones decision on strike, consultations ongoing

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says consultations are ongoing and postponed its decision on strike.

This position is contained in a press statement issued by the union after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at its Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, at the weekend, to review the level of government’s implementation of the FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Action of 23rd December, 2020 and other related matters.

In the press statement signed by ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the lecturers lamented that the Federal Government has rejected the plan to set up an inter-ministerial committee to review the draft Renegotiated 2009.

The statement read in part that, “NEC was worried by the spirited efforts of government agents to reduce the demands of ASUU to a regime of intermittent payment of watered-down revitalisation fund and release of distorted and grossly devalued Earned Academic Allowances.

It stated that ASUU shall not relent in demanding for improvement in the welfare and conditions of service of our members as well as resist any attempt to blackmail the union and derail the patriotic struggle for a productive university system.

ASUU’s NEC has concluded that government has failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement and subsequent MoUs and MoAs.

Accordingly, the Union noted that considering the ongoing intervention and consultation efforts, NEC resolved to review the situation at a later date with a view to deciding on the next line of action.