ASUU decides on strike today
ON August 14, 2017 1:26 AM /
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA – ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, will today take a final decision on
whether it will proceed on strike over
unresolved issues with the Federal Government
or not.
Unconfirmed report had it that the union met
yesterday at an undisclosed venue to take
decision on the looming strike.
But when Vanguard sought confirmation of the
meeting from the National President of the
union, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi last night, he
simply invited our Correspondent to attend a
press briefing at Labour House today.
But information had it that Chairmen of state
chapters of the union met in Abuja, with the
national leadership where they collated and
reviewed the results of the referendum they
conducted in their separate chapters.
The chairmen whom majority of them had
approved a nationwide strike, deliberated
alongside the National Executive Council, NEC
the duration the strike would last.
Recall that the NEC had met at the Nasarawa
State University, Keffi on the 22nd and 23rd
July, 2017, and deliberated extensively on
issues arising from the 2009 ASUU/FGN
agreement, the 2013 MoU and other related
issues and decided to conduct a referendum at
the branch congresses on the next line of
action.
According to a letter signed by the union’s
National President Prof. Ogunyemi, the issues
at stake included payment of fractions/non-
payment of salaries; non-payment of earned
academic allowances, non-release of
operational licence of NUPENCO, retired
professors and their salaries, university staff
schools, and funds for the revitalisation of
public universities.
