The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has declared a roll over of it’s industrial action for another two months which begins on Monday 14th at 12:01am, March 2021.
This was made known in a statement signed and made available to journalists in Abuja after the National Executive Council meeting called to review developments on the initial four weeks total and comprehensive roll-over strike action.
#Breaking: The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months (Till May 14th)
The decision to extend the strike was taken at the union’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja last night.#ASUU#ASUUstrike
— Official_ASUU (@ASUU_NGN) March 14, 2022
The Council noted at the end of the meeting held at it secretariat, Festus Iyayi building University of Abuja, that the Union’s leadership has held several interactive meetings with agents of government in the last four weeks that the strike action lasted.
NEC, having taken reports on the engagements of the Trustees and Principal Officers with the Government, concluded that Government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight (8) weeks to give Government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible.
ASUU expressed disappointment that Government did not treat the matters involved with utmost urgency they deserved during the four-week period.
“NEC viewed Government’s response, so far, as a continuation of the unconscionable, mindless, and nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian ruling elite towards the proven path of national development which is education.
“NEC acknowledged the intervention efforts, in various ways, by patriots and friends of genuine national development (students, parents, journalists, trade union leaders, civil society activists etc.) to expeditiously resolve the crisis which Government’s disposition had allowed to fester. However, ASUU, as a union of intellectuals, has historic obligations to make governments honour agreements.“
The strike action came on the heels of Government’s failure to satisfactorily implement the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with the Union in December 2020 on funding for revitalization of public universities (both Federal and States), renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), Earned Academic Allowances, State Universities, promotion arrears, withheld salaries, and non-remittance of third-party deductions.
