THE Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) yesterday began an indefinite strike action over the
non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MOA) signed with the Federal
Government.
ASUU strike ASUU strike The strike
action which began with immediate effect, the National President of ASUU, Prof
Biodun Ogunyemi said would cover both the Federal and State owned universities.
Prof Ogunyemi who briefed the media
after the National Executive Council (NEC) of the ASUU last night in Akure, the
Ondo state capital said all entreaties made to the Federal Government to honour
the agreement with the union fell of deaf ears and they have no other option
than to begin an indefinite strike action.
He said “having waited patiently for
action and meaningful negotiation with reasonable men using the principle of
collective bargaining that ASUU at its NEC meeting of 3rd and 4th November 2018
at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) resolved to resume the
nationwide strike action it suspended in September 2017 with immediate effect.
“This strike will be total comprehensive
and indefinite. Our members shall withdraw their services until government
fully implement all outstanding issues as contained in the MOA of 2017, and
concludes the renegotiation of the 2009 agreements. “We have today been
subjected to 20 years of continued re-colonization under alleged democracy in
which all that the ruling circle have been regrouping among themselves in their
various faction they called political parties.” According to him the release of
paltry N20 billion revitalization fund was despite the fact that the same
government released N1.3 trillion to a distressed bank. Ogunyemi said the
government was not interested in public universities as the children of the top
politicians and rich men in the society patronize private universities at the
detriment of public institutions.
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