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ASUU Gives Update On Impending Strike

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3 years ago

Sep 14, 2021.

ASUU Gives Fresh Ultimatum To FG, Threatens Strike

ASUU has given an update on its impending nationwide strike.

EKOHOTBLOG reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has said that it might be compelled to embark on another strike if the Federal Government (FG) fails to implement the December 22, 2020 Memorandum of Action signed with it prior to the suspension of the last industrial action.

The Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Benin, Prof. Fred Esumeh, made this known while speaking on ‘Another Inevitable Round of Crisis in Nigerian Universities’ on Monday.

Esumeh, who did not disclose when the strike would commence, said the union awaited the decision of the national body to give the directive.

It would be recalled that in March 2020, ASUU embarked on strike following its disagreement with the FG over the funding of the universities and ineffectiveness and discrepancies around the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and others.

ASUU, however, developed the University Transparency and Accountability Solution to replace IPPIS and had several meetings with the Ministries of Finance, Education, Labour and Employment, and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) before it was approved but yet to be implemented.

Meanwhile, Esumeh, who spoke on another strike on Monday, said, “For the records, that strike action was declared on the 23rd of March 2020 over the federal government’s failure to honour the terms of an earlier 7th February 2019 MoA in which the federal government had freely agreed to conclude the details of the renegotiation of the FGN-ASUU 2009 agreement.

“The specific issues remain that the federal government deliberate delay in deploying the University Transparency and Accountability Solution as the payment platform for university staff, the non-payment of the due tranche of Earned Academic Allowances.

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“Others are the non-release of the earlier agreed N40 billion fund for the revitalisation of public universities, the unwillingness to sign the draft of the renegotiated 2009 agreement, the continued non-payment of promotion arrears, the non-payment of withheld salaries and the non-remittance of deducted check-off dues of the union,” the ASUU Zonal Coordinator stated.

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