We’ve Met 80% Of ASUU’s Requests — FG

As the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Monday, further extended its over six months strike, the Federal Government faulted the action, claiming it had met 80% of their demands.

BrandNewsDay reports that the umbrella union of lecturers, ASUU at the nation’s public schools earlier on Monday again extended the strike, accusing the Federal Government of breaking its promises in the renegotiation of the agreement it signed with it in 2009.

Following its National Executive Council, NEC meeting at the University of Abuja Secretariat, ASUU took action.

Even though the union has not yet released an official statement or spoken to the media about the implications of its meeting, which started late on Sunday and went into early on Monday, some union members who spoke anonymously revealed that the meeting ended with a decision to go on an indefinite strike.

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According to information obtained by BrandNewsDay, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of the ASUU, will be in charge of outlining the union’s official stance on the NEC meeting.

“We resolved in our just concluded NEC meeting that we should make the ongoing strike indefinite since the federal government has failed to show any commitment to addressing the grey areas that led us to this action.

“Our President, as usual, would communicate this among others decisions to the public through the media,” he said, refusing to speak further.

In response to the development, the federal government claimed that the FG had met 80% of the union’s demands and criticized the extension of the strike as unreasonable.

The Federal Ministry of Education, speaking through its Director of Press and Public Relations, Bem Goong, said: “If you bring some demands and almost 80% have been attended to, there is no need to drag the strike anymore.”

According to him, “It is unreasonable for the strike to be lingering since the government has worked towards fulfilling most of the demands.”

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Goong, who said the federal government had deployed all measures to end the strike, said: “As regards the next steps, the government has already inaugurated a committee to harmonize the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS and the University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System, U3PS.

He explained that” This will ensure that the government will pay with only one payment platform that will harmonize all the technical peculiarities.”

Recall that Malam Adamu Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, claimed last week that the government had met most of the demands made by ASUU.

The release of N50 billion for the payment of earned allowances for academic and non-academic staff at universities was one of the demands addressed, according to Adamu.

Recall also the current strike, which had previously been postponed, started on February 14th, 2022, after parties were unable to come to an agreement.