The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities has
accused the government of not following up on an MOU to pay lecturers an earn
allowance, and has thus declared a nationwide strike.The ASUU National
President, Isa Fagge, told news men of the development at a news conference on
telephone conversation at the University of Lagos.He pointed out that the
decision to have the strike was reached at the National Executive
Committee (NEC) meeting of ASUU held at the Olabisi Onabanjo University,
Ago Iwoye, on Monday.
Mr. Fagge explained to journalists that the strike,
which takes immediate effect, will be comprehensive, total and indefinite’’. He
said that the action was as a result of the inability of the Federal Government
to implement some of the issues contained in a 2009 agreement it had with ASUU.The
unionist said that the government had also reneged on the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) it entered into with the union in December 2011.“Before
now, there has been this issue of the implementation of the key issues
contained in the 2009 agreement we entered into with the Federal Government.“We
have had several meetings and deliberations to let government understand why
these issues must be resolved but it is like the more we meet and deliberate,
the messier the issue gets.“One of the issues that needed to be addressed was
basically that of the Academic earned allowance. This earned allowance, and
other issues, had dragged on until government then agreed to write an MOU with
the union.“But as we speak, there has been nothing to show that government was
committed to an MOU it also willingly wrote to better the university sector.“It
is in this regard that we are embarking on an indefinite strike,” he said.
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