The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has
explained why it extended its ongoing strike by eight weeks.
ASUU on Monday extended the strike which began on February
14th for another eight weeks after it’s National Executove Council meeting on
Sunday night.
President of the union, Emmanuel Osodeke, in a statement
said the strike was extended because the Federal Government failed to
satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of
Action within the four-week warning strike.
Part of the statement read, “NEC acknowledged the
intervention efforts, in various ways, by patriots and friends of genuine
national development (students, parents, journalists, trade union leaders,
civil society activists etc.) to expeditiously resolve the crisis
which•Govemment’s disposition had allowed to fester.
“However, ASUU, as a union of intellectuals, has historic
obligations to make governments honour agreements.
“NEC, having taken reports on the engagements of the
Trustees and Principal Officers with the Government, concluded that Government
had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU
Memorandum of Action within the 4-week roll-over strike period and resolved
that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks to give Government more
time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will
resume as soon as possible.”
He announced that the roll-over strike will begin on Monday,
14th March 2022 for the next eight weeks.
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