ASUU Strike Update: No Retreat, No Surrender – ASUU President
In anticipation of today’s meeting between the Federal Government and ASUU representatives, the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has stated that the union will not back down on the ongoing strike if a compromise is not reached.
Dr.
Fagge made this statement in a telephone interview earlier today. He
maintained that the strike action was not embarked upon just for the
demands, but for the Federal Government to honour a Memorandum of
Understanding which it signed in 2012 with ASUU.
The
ASUU President: “Who’s talking about demands here? We presented our
demands in 2006 and it took us three years to get it into an agreement.
“The
FG signed the MOU in 2012, that’s what we are asking them to honour,
period. The strike action will
not continue only if they implement the
MOU we had last year.”
The
ASUU President further noticed that “If we call off the strike when the
MOU has not been implemented, of what use was the strike action in the
first place? We are holding on until everything is sorted out.”
The
strike by the lecturers lasts for forty-nine days if, ASUU does not
reach an agreement with the Federal Government at the meeting scheduled
to hold later today. READ MORE: http://news.naij.com/44209.html
