The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU ) has postponed its decision on strike, saying that consultations are ongoing with the federal government.
This was revealed in a statement issued at the National Executive Council meeting on Saturday by Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja to review the level of government’s implementation of the FGN-ASUU Memorandum of Action of 23rd December, 2020 and other related matters.
Adulawo recalls that ASUU had announced plans to embark on a strike over the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands.
In the press statement titled, ‘Enough of blackmail’, signed by ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the lecturers regretted that the Federal Government has turned its back on plan to set up an inter-ministerial committee to review the draft Renegotiated 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement.
Part of the statement read:
“NEC was worried by the spirited efforts of government agents to reduce the demands of ASUU to a regime of intermittent payment of watered-down revitalisation fund and release of distorted and grossly devalued Earned Academic Allowances .
“ASUU shall not relent in demanding for improvement in the welfare and conditions of service of our members. However, we shall resist any attempt to blackmail the union and derail our patriotic struggle for a productive university system by official propaganda founded on tokenism and crumb-sharing.
“NEC concluded that government has failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement and subsequent MoUs and MoAs.
“However, considering the ongoing intervention and consultation efforts, NEC resolved to review the situation at a later date with a view to deciding on the next line of action.”