According to The Punch, the protest will be organised at
various branches of the union across public university campuses nationwide and
it will double as a lecture-free day for all lecturers who are members.
This was disclosed to the paper by a member of the National
Executive Council of the union on Sunday, November 13, 2022.
The source said: “We are protesting. Branches will choose
their own dates, the government needs to understand that we are not casual
workers.”
Confirming the development, the chairperson of ASUU,
University of Lagos branch, Dele Ashir, stated in a letter that the branch
would protest on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
The letter which was addressed to “all stakeholders” noted
that the special congress/ protest rally against the casualization of
intellectualism in Nigeria will hold on “Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at Julius
Berger auditorium.”
Meanwhile, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel
Osodeke, could not be immediately reached for comments as of the time of filing
this report.
This comes in the wake of Federal Government's decision to pay
the members of ASUU in pro-rata for the number of days that they worked in
October, counting from the day that they suspended their industrial action.
Recall that ASUU had embarked on an eight month strike that
commenced on February 14 and was suspended on October 14, 2022.