Due to the Federal Government’s inability to accept the union’s requests, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced that its continuing warning strike may be prolonged for another 16 weeks.
In a phone interview over the weekend, ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke told journalists that if the government did not take meaningful steps to address their demands by the end of the two-month strike, the union will convene and determine whether to go on a 16-week roll-over strike.
The strike, which began on February 14 and is now in its seventh week, is still going strong.
Osodeke said, “At the end of these two months, we will meet, evaluate the situation and if the government has not done anything, my congress will also advise that we should roll over the strike again. Maybe for 16 weeks.”
Due to the Federal Government’s inability to accept the union’s requests, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced that its continuing warning strike may be prolonged for another 16 weeks.
In a phone interview over the weekend, ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke told journalists that if the government did not take meaningful steps to address their demands by the end of the two-month strike, the union will convene and determine whether to go on a 16-week roll-over strike.
The strike began on February 14 and is now in its seventh week.
“This is what we’ve been saying since the beginning. These people don’t have any feelings for the Nigerian students or their parents, and they have no feelings for the system just because their children are not here.
“If their children were students here, they would’ve taken action long ago, solved the problem, and then schools resume. They have just made it clear now that they don’t care about these children,” he explained.
The ASUU President stated emphatically that the federal government has made no move to meet with them in order to negotiate terms for ending the strike.
“There has been no meeting to resolve the issue between ASUU and the FG. They’ve not reached out, we are still waiting for them.
He added, “The government is not really interested in education. If they were interested, they wouldn’t allow the strike to last more than 1 week but this is the 7th week and they’ve not made any comment.”
When asked about the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) protests over the strike, Osodeke said the students have a right to protest because the system does not work for them.
“As Nigerians, they have a right to protest if the system is not working because we have given our own reason why we are on strike.
“It is in the interest of the students and the whole community so as students they have the right to protest,” he said.
On February 14, 2022, ASUU began a warning strike to press for the renegotiation of its 2009 agreement with the government and the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) to replace the Federal Government’s Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
The strike was extended by two months on March 14th, until May 14th, indicating that it is not a new strike, but rather a continuation of the 10-month strike that began in March 2020 and was stopped on December 23, 2020.
Payment of earned academic allowances, cash for the regeneration of public universities, promotion arrears, and inadequate support of state universities are among ASUU’s other demands.
ASUU has also demanded that the reports of the government’s inspection committees to federal universities be made public, as well as that academics’ salaries be paid on a regular basis.
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