The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has given three conditions to be tabled before President Goodluck Jonathan today. If the terms are acceptable to the Federal Government, the union will call off the strike.
The ASUU leadership has banned its local chapters and zonal chairmen from talking to the media until after the session with the President.
ASUU President Dr. Nasir Issa Fagge and other leaders of the union were being expected in Abuja last night.
According to a source, who was part of the ASUU session at Mambayya House in Kano, the conditions are:
•Commitment from the President that any review or reconsideration or renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement will not substantially affect the pact which is the cause of the ongoing strike;
•Immediate payment of all outstanding salary arrears and allowances of varsity teachers without victimization; and
•A written commitment from the President that the Federal Government will commit N225billion annually to the funding of universities for the next four years.
There is a fourth condition, which is said to be “personal” to ASUU, bordering on the need to be wary of gradual loss of public sympathy.
The union leaders were said to have recognised public goodwill for the strike and the need to avert any action that could erode such confidence.
The source said: “Our leaders are meeting with the President on Monday to table these conditions. Once the President accepts these three terms, the strike will be called off.
“In principle, members voted about 60-40 per cent to call off the strike, but they added a caveat – that ASUU leaders should extract a commitment (signed and sealed) from the President.
The union is said to have insisted on the three conditions because during talks with the Federal Government, it was apparent that the government wanted a renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement.
“If ASUU had accepted to renegotiate the entire Agreement , it means there will be no basis for the ongoing strike. The worst that can happen is either having the abridged version of the 2009 Agreement or a phased implementation of the document,” the source added.
The Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State became at the weekend the third institution to break ranks with the striking union.
It asked its students to return to the campus today. Lecture are to start on December 2, according to the Registrar, Mr. Bamidele Olotu.
Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT), Enugu, and the Ibrahim Badamosi University, Lapai, in Niger State had earlier directed the reopening of the schools.
The registrar directed students to begin their registration on the school portal immediately.
AAUA Student Union President Julius Adeniyi welcomed the resumption plan and assured his fellow students of a hitch-free semester.
He said: “We are dying and wasting away our time at home; and I am backing my Vice Chancellor on the resumption date. We are coming in and nothing will happen.”
If F.G did not agree with this three conditions so no calling off the strike. Again IMSU will not join there counterpart ESUT in re-opening, because both their students and lecturers hall shops at Eke Onunwa Market.
ReplyDeleteEven if they call off the strike IMSU students and their lecturers are not coming back this year because they all have shops in EKE ONUNWA Market....
ReplyDeleteASUU is selfish. This whole strick is mainly about how their allowaances will b paid and other selfish benefits.
ReplyDeleteThis is getting too much of ASUU! So you guys won't to be paid for job not done? Can you give back what parents and students have lost during the strike? It's quite obvious all you guys are after is your own interests and not those of the Nigerian students. I pray the government will not agree to your selfish demands!
ReplyDeleteASUU president is a Selfish,Canibalistic nd a Sadist,rejoicing in others misfortune.Dam U idiots go to hell wit Ur demands.
ReplyDeleteASUU president is a Selfish,Canibalistic nd a Sadist,rejoicing in others misfortune.Dam U idiots go to hell wit Ur demands.He has suceeded in killing iyayi now he feels no one can Oppose him.
ReplyDeleteBefore unkoo, una no know say na 4 their own pockets them they on strike since? Okay, una think say them they fight 4 the development or upgrading of universities. Greedy ASUU, make God punish them I pray make govt no meet their selfish demands. Upon all the sorting money and handout money them they collect 4rm students, they are not still satisfied, may God punish una.
ReplyDeletelol... the second condition is so ridiculous. how on earth do they expect to be paid when they did not work....in fact i just cant imagine.
ReplyDeleteGovernment did not comply with 2009 agreement because it contained clauses that are not implementable, i.e, guaranteed funding of a fixed amount. ASUU still has this in their new conditions, which means they did not learn their lesson. President to provide a written guarantee? They are jokers. Have they forgotten the No work, No pay clause. They have already lost the confidence and support of the public. Let them make do with the salaries they have been earning from part-time teaching at the Private Universities. What are Professors doing being union leaders
ReplyDeletenot that ASUU is selfish but, they need to fight against uncoordinated government at hand which does not dully attache important the Nation education' in other way round w still need to plead at ASUU and the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to stop wasting our precious time doing nothing at home' most this people in question, they don't have their children schooling here in Nigeria, w can;t expect them to be touched about the issue on ground. May God help the ASSU body. pls! sir's and ma's w'r tired of staying at home. maintain_' osun state university student.
ReplyDeleteI don't think FG should agree to pay ASUU for work not done. The lecturers spent the strike period doing other PPs. why double pay? its irrational/ illogical act of, lawlessness to say the least of it. May God help Nigeria from cannibals like ASUU
ReplyDeleteIf dis money is given,
ReplyDeletewil d lecturers stop failing us (in uniabuja[part time]) bcos we refuse 2 settl dem?
Wil it stop d issue of missin script afta exams?
wil it put an end to caryova on courses u did not evn regista?
wil it stop d lecturers 4rm sendin 'student lecturers' 2 kom n lecture during our oficial contacts?
Wil it put a stop on a mixup in ur result, such dat u dont av diferent result on a master list of a result sheet and d 1 postd on d net 4 students?
Wil it put a stop 2 victimization of student by lecturers?
The questions can go on n on but let me stop here 4 now.
our God will surelly remember us. He that has called into the university is faithful enough to see us through let us pray for our nation complain cannot stop the plot of a wicked leader but God can. God bless you
ReplyDeleteI wonder whos the looser at the end of the day? it is high time govt begin to think and act wise. They shd have given them this promise for long since that's what they want.
ReplyDeletewe need serious labour law in this country that will ban all form of strike.
Empty vessel makes the loudest noise. This Anonymous person is a big fool that has no interest of Nigerian students at heart.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the strike has taken long, but 70% of what ASUU is demanding is for the benefit of the student. But the students themselves do not realize this. In our own time we were not suffering as the present day students are suffering. In our own time we were even the people to go on strike when things were going wrong but today the students are ready to die rather than letting the govt. to do what is right. The students of today are just interested getting their certificates and leave,. They fail to know their rights. I am not a lecturer neither do I have intention to be but I think ASUU is right by making those demands that will be for the benefit of University education in Nigeria. When the Federal Govt were signing the agreements were they charmed by ASUU. They knew what they were demanding were right. That is why they signed. In our own time only two students were quartered in a hostel room with better food. Is it so today? That is why our leaders are sending their children overseas because of the suffering conditions of the Nigerian University students. So, students know your rights and fight for it and not to abuse your lecturers.
ReplyDeleteA clear indication of defeat. Lecturers, do not politicise your positions for in you reside the pride of the nation even if it was never acknowledged. Your actions now, after the long waiting and the eventual loss of goodwill, will convey to Nigerians a detasteful massage that 'behind all your propaganda are your interest first. Clearly, your considerations are your drive and what you carry as your banner is a clear deceptive tool to win public sympathy; a gesture you are fast losing hence, your desire to stay relevant. The genuine slogan you have carried should have been backed with a genuine interest to eradicate the rot in the educational system but, interlectuals as you all are, you forgot that education is not what a man learnt when he is an adult but when he was a kid. How do our pre-university institutions fare, was never and perhaps will never be your concern. You're doomed for failure untill you recognise your own shortcomings.
ReplyDeleteI think a union like ASUU is the worst in the history of Nigeria, worse than OPC or any other wicked union you can think of. So they now need their salary arrears before they continue work? I just pray FG will never agree to that demand because it's no more for the interest of the students but for themselves. Maybe when they see how serious the FG is then the hungry ones will facilitate the ones that think they're not touched by the strike to call off the strike. Selfish hypocrites pretending to be fighting for students.......
ReplyDeleteThat's true man.........
DeleteLet Asuu and FG finalize all arrangements and be set to suspend the strike by january 2014 cos both students and lecturers are already engaged with one commercial activity or the other that will enable them celebrate chrismas and new year very well. some female students and lecturers have since conceived, put to birth and currently nursing their babies. happy xmas nd new year in advance see u in lecture hall jan 2014.
ReplyDeleteI am a member of ASUU and for my own curiosity, let me ask Mr Wike - What is so obnoxious in the Conditions tabled before Mr. President for his consideration ? -
ReplyDeleteIs it the " No victimization clause " ? Would you rather victimize a person or persons you reached a peaceful agreement with ? Or Is it the " Signing and Sealing" of what you have already accepted to do for the upgrading of our Universities in the next five years ? Or Is it the mention of the re-negotiation due in 2014 as agreed to during the November meeting with the President ? It is also important (infact very important that you as the Honourable Minister should use the language of the letter as addressed to Mr. President when talking to the press or members of the public. YOU ARE UNNECESSARILY STARTING FIGHT AT THE END OF THE BATTLE !! You need to find out the fate of the - Biafran soldiers who continued shooting after Col. Obasanjo was ending the battle. Do crosscheck with your Boss - Our President - he has not interpreted our letter the way you have done and anyone who thinks differently from his boss NEEDS TO THINK AGAIN. Hon. Minister Do Think Again !!already accepted to do for Universities in the next five years ?already accepted to do for FUniversities in the next five years ? Should there be a problem in signing what one says he will do ? Or is it the SEALING that is the problem ? is it the SELING