The National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will hold its meeting on Sunday in Abuja to decide the next line of action as its four-week warning strike comes to an end on Monday.
“Yes, we are meeting today on the ongoing strike and other
matters,” he said.
Asked if the strike could be called off after the meeting,
he replied, “Not likely. There is no positive development that I know of.”
The president of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, also
confirmed the meeting without giving details.
The meeting is coming one day to the expiration of the
warning strike by ASUU.
The union had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total
and comprehensive four-week warning strike.
The strike, according to the union, was due to the failure
of the government to implement the agreement the Federal Government signed with
the union in 2009.
ASUU had also accused the Federal Government of working
against the deployment of the UTAS, a payment platform designed by ASUU in lieu
of the IPPIS payment system.
In an interview with Channels Television on Saturday,
Osodeke said, “Nothing tangible has been done so far. We have met with the
Minister of Labour twice.
“We gave a room for them (NIREC) to intervene and they did.
What we see is a lack of will and lack of interest in the public university
system.
“The strike didn’t need to last more than one week if the
government had taken it seriously. When they had a problem in Ukraine where the
sons of the rich were studying, we saw how fast they released money, but in the
country where the children of the poor are studying, nothing has been done.”
The Federal Government had insisted that UTAS, having failed
the required tests, was unfit to be used as a payment platform.
ASUU, however, accused the government of being unwilling to
accept its alternative to the IPPIS.
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