Strike: Nationwide ASUU Branches To Hold Congresses Today, Exco On Wednesday
will hold their congresses today to brief its members on
President Goodluck Jonathan's offer. Nigeria public
universities were closed down several months ago as a
result of the Federal Government's failure to implement the
agreement it entered into in 2010 with lecturers.
There have been a lot of calls to the Federal Government
and ASUU to come to a compromise so that students resume
academic activities. Both warring factions had maintained
hard stand on the issue as ASUU argued that poor funding
was responsible for the dwindling fortunes of education and
its attendant poor quality of graduates, while the Federal
Government said the university lecturers downed tools over
enhanced earned allowance.
The leading members of the Senate and President Jonathan
had separate meetings with the union and relevant
stakeholders last Monday, in the coruse of which new offers
were made to the teachers with a plea for them to re-open
universities. A branch Chairman of ASUU stated that the
outcome of today's meeting of the various branches would
be announced to the national leadership of the union, which
will in turn convene an emergency NEC meeting between
Wednesday and Thursday this week to consider the
positions of various branches .
The Chairman, who did not want his name to be mentioned,
said: "It is at the meeting that the various branches will take
position and communicate same to the national leadership
Monday evening, then an emergency NEC meeting would
be convened between Wednesday and Thursday. "We have
not been told of the venue, but we were told to prepare
because it would take two days by road from my branch."
According to his words, calling for a strike or calling it off is
not the decision to be taken by the ASUU President (Dr.
Nasir Fagge) or the national executive alone.
Source:Vanguard
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