A two-day meeting to finalize the union’s decision on an impending strike will begin today by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The meeting is expected to take place at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka.
It would be recalled that the Union had warned that a strike will commence if nothing is done by the government between February 12 and 13.
In specific terms, ASUU is requesting that the Federal Government (FG) implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the Union last year.
ASUU is further claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari is avoiding its responsibility by asking ministers to oversee the implementation of the MoA.
The Union said, “It is wrong for President Muhammadu Buhari to assign two ministers to oversee the implementation of the Memorandum of Action signed last year with ASUU.
“First, the assigned ministers are not part of the agreement. Only the ministers of Finance and Education were part of the agreement.
“Our union, ASUU, is using this medium to call upon the Federal Government of Nigeria once again to implement the agreement it signed with ASUU.
“It is unfortunate to mention that the FG signed an agreement with the ASUU since 2009, but the agreement is not implemented to date.
“The agreement was renegotiated in the name of peace. But to our dismay, the government has refused to sign the renegotiated agreement. To make the implementation of the agreement easy for the FG, the union has limited its demand to only three.
“These include the signing/implementation of the renegotiated agreement of 2009; and the adoption of the University Transparency and Accountability Software instead of the controversial IPPIS.”
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