The Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal government of Nigeria on 7th of February, 2019 has not been kept by the Federal government, which triggered the ASUU National President to make a statement regarding that the Federal government to take caution if they did not want ASUU strike to take place in various Universities, NIGERIA NEWS reports.
The ASUU National President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi make the statement during a briefing with some newsmen in Lagos on Sunday.
Prof. Ogunyemi further narrates the ordeals the Union is facing with the federal government by stating as quoted below:
“What the government ought to have done, they do not want to do anymore. They have literally gone to sleep.
“For instance they had promised before the suspension of the strike, to set up a visitation panel to our universities within two weeks and three months after the government has not done anything in that regard.
The federal government make a promise to pay ASUU sum of 25 million naira of the Earn Academic Allowances, EAA, which is said to be a half payment, but up till now, the federal government have not done anything about it
The National President for ASUU further narrated by saying that:
“Our renegotiation with Dr. Wale Babalakin had promised to put us in a more cordial path with fair guidelines when we come back to the renegotiation table but now, there seems to be no change of attitude on the side of government.”
He added that the MoU contains the span time they should attend to every requirement and stated clearly their objectives by stating that:
“The point is that we are not keen on disrupting the academic calendar. What we are doing is to express our worries and carry the public along.
“So, Nigerians must come out now and speak to the government concerning all these things raised to maintain the current precarious industrial stability on our campuses,”.
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