The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said they are not going to backdown on their decision to continue with the industrial action due to Federal Government\u2019s failure to honour the 2009 agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the union took the \u2018difficult decision\u2019 after exhausting all options available to settle the matter with the Federal Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his words: \u201cThe problem is the will of the government to resolve issues, for instance when the airline operators said they were going to stop the flights, the Senate and House of Representatives quickly stepped in because they are affected.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhy would they not resolve that of the education sector that is affecting the poor masses and the ordinary people<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the government is willing to resolve the issues affecting the Nigerians, then there would be no need to go on strike.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe talk of negotiation of the agreement, the proliferation of universities, among others, so there are lots of issues that they have not resolved.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Osodeke reiterated that aside from failing to pay earned salary areas, the Federal Government had also refused to accept UTAS as our preferred payment platform that had been tested and passed with a score of 99.3 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He further urged the Federal Government to do the needful in order for students to return back to school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said they are not going to backdown on their decision to continue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n