Hope for Nigerian Students: ASUU fix resumption date
Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the union will soon end its industrial action. Prof. Osodeke made this known on Monday during a meeting with the leadership of the house of representatives.
According to the union, the federal government has agreed to pay the universities’ salaries for the past eight months, so classes can resume on October 17th, 2022.
Recall that ASUU has been on strike since February14 over the federal government’s failure to keep to the 2019 agreement which includes accepting the University Accountability Solution(UTAS) as the union’s preferred payment platform and also review of lecturers’ salaries and allowances, among other matters.
Prof. Osodeke reiterated the need for stakeholders to show more commitment towards ensuring that strike periods are not allowed to overstretch.
In his words, “Please, let all of us work together to put a beautiful end to this end to this thing we have started, so that every Nigerian will be proud that we have universities we can be proud of
“Once again, I want to thank you. I also extend our appreciation to the president for intervening, I want to appeal that in the future, we should not allow strike to linger. Strike should not go beyond two days.
“If the way the national assembly has intervened, if we had done that long ago, or those in charge of labour and education had done exactly this, we would not be where we are today; we would not have stayed more than two or three weeks on this strike. There is strike all over the world — UK, US, all over — but they don’t allow it to last.
“So, once again, thank you very much and we hope that working together, in the next few days, we can put an end to this particular imbroglio in the Nigerian educational system.”
Source: The Cable
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