ASUU to begin strike on Wednesday
The Academic Staff Union of Universities
said it would embark on a one week warning strike over failure by the
Federal Government to implement the 2009 Agreement and 2013 MoU.
ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun
Ogunyemi, on Monday
told a news conference that the National Executive
Council of ASUU resolved to embark on a one week warning strike from
Wednesday November 16 after a nation-wide consultation with members.
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.”
The ASUU president said that during the
warning strike, there shall be no teaching, examination and no
attendance at statutory meetings in all branches.
He, however, called on all
education-loving Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to
address the patriotic demands of ASUU until the Nigerian university
system is repositioned.
He said, “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.”
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