The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff of Universities will meet on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Sources in the union revealed that after the meeting, NEC members will meet Federal Government officials later in the week.<\/p>\n
ASUU had last week Monday declared a nationwide four-week roll-over strike after a two-day meeting at the University of Lagos, Akoka.<\/p>\n
The union said it had no option but to embark on the strike, saying despite meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on October 14, 2021, on issues, including funding for revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution; promotion arrears, renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, and the inconsistencies in Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System Payment, none of its demands had been met.<\/p>\n
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Investigations revealed that as of Sunday afternoon, some members of ASUU NEC had arrived Abuja in readiness for the meeting.<\/p>\n
While confirming the meeting to our correspondent, the national chairman, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said if the government was responsive, there would be no need for the strike to last for weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is just a meeting; they are inviting us for a meeting within the week. They will tell us why they called.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what they plan to tell us, we will meet them within the week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He told Nigerians to \u201cAppeal to the government to implement the agreement we signed with them. The strike can be called off any day, it is in the government\u2019s hand if they want it to last for a week, two weeks, one month, a year, or more. It is the government that will decide when they want the strike to end. Our position is that they should agree and implement what they signed with us. If they are responsive, it doesn\u2019t need to last for weeks. We have given them one month to react.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also, the ASUU Chairman, Federal University, Dutsin-ma, Dr Jibrin Shagari, in an interview with The PUNCH<\/em>, confirmed that the union\u2019s NEC members will converge on Abuja on Monday night.<\/p>\nShagari said, \u201cYes, I can confirm that our national officers will be in Abuja on Monday night where they will meet and later meet the Federal Government.\u201d<\/p>\n
ASUU rules out confidence in FG as meeting holds<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, union members still do not believe that the government is ready to meet their demands.<\/p>\n
The Chairman, ASUU, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Dr Gbenga Adeleye, insisted that the union would not call off the strike if their demands were not met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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