ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said this in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
NAN recalls that ASUU had been on strike for the past five
months to press home its demands.
The striking lecturers’ demands include, funding of the
revitalisation of public universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University
Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears.
Others are the renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and
the inconsistency in Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
However, NAN reports that since the union embarked on
strike, few of its members have pulled out of the ongoing strike to resume
their academic activities.
According to Osedeke, we will punish those who have pulled
out from our ongoing strike the appropriate way.
“We will ensure to query them and we will follow it up the
appropriate way. We have even queried some of them in accordance with the
union,’’ he said.
Osedeke also noted that since the last Tripartite Plus
meeting called by the Chief of Staff to the President on the ongoing industrial
action over a month ago, there has been no other meeting.
He said that there was nothing concrete that came out of the
last meeting that was held at the villa.
“We have not been called for any other meeting since that
time and government did not offer us anything, they just ask us to meeting with
the committee that was all.
He also said that the union will be meeting with government
within the week.