The Academic Staff Union of Universities amidst various grievances with the federal government’s refusal to pay February salaries and deviation from the earlier agreed memorandum of understanding over the years embarked on a two weeks warning strike to air their views and displeasure over the actions of the Federal Government.
Union leaders have proposed a new system of payment that will favour union members and help the Federal Government to bring an amicable understanding between both parties with regards to the strike action.
The system called University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS). The systems promises to fraud and corruption free.
National President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, said the National Executive Committee of the Union will review the conditions for the integration of UTAS into IPPIS.
The long standing history of ASSU strikes stem from the poor funding of public Universities by the Federal Government.
Every time the dispute boiled over to strike by the teachers, negotiations between the two parties always produced agreements.
However, the government’s failure to meet the teachers’ expectations within the context of the agreements have been a primary reason ASUU has been on strike almost every year since 1999.
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ASUU, called for an immediate review of the promises made by government to address the dilapidated and deplorable infrastructures and alleviate the bad state of education system in Nigeria, and demanded that such should be respected.
The current situation has been made worse by apparent government intruding in the present day management and administration of universities.
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As things stand now, students are made to learn under inhumane conditions. This is in spite of all the efforts of ASUU to bring to a reasonable agreement to resolve, all inherent physical problems being experienced by the students in Nigerian Universities.
source:Punch
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