ASUU To Embark On One-Week Warning Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that it would embark on a week warning strike over a failure by the Federal Government to implement the 2009 Agreement and 2013 MoU.

The National President of the union, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, made this known on Monday during a press conference at the University of Abuja.

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ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi

 

Ogunyemi said following a nation-wide consultation with members, the National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU resolved to embark on a one-week warning strike from Wednesday Nov.16.

He said: “Many aspects of the 2013 MoU and the 2009 Agreement with the Federal Government have either been unimplemented or despairingly handled.

“The agreements are: Payments of staff entitlements since December 2015, funding of universities for revitalisation, pension, TSA and university autonomy and renegotiation of 2009 Agreement.

“Failure by the Federal Government to implement this agreement has put ASUU leadership in severe difficulty, responding to inquiries from members of the union about the state of our agreement’’.

Ogunyemi said there shall be no teaching, examination nor attendance at statutory meetings during the warning strike.

The ASUU president called on all education-loving Nigerians to persuade the Nigerian government to address the demands of the union, stating that the allocation to education had dropped.

“With the release of the 2016 Annual Budget, our union wondered aloud why allocation to education dropped from 11 per cent in 2015 to eight per cent in 2016.

“With the introduction of TSA, the federal universities find it extremely difficult to discharge their core responsibilities of teaching, research and community services.

“We tried to correct the erroneous impression in government circles that the capital and research grants to universities were being handled by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund),’’ he said.