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In reaction to the extension of ASUU strike, FG claimed to have met the demands of the union
- Minister of State for Education said all earned allowances as well as revitalisation funds had been released
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has reacted to the extension of ASUU strike by eight weeks, saying the government had met all the demands of the union.
In his response to ASUU’s declaration of the extension of its industrial strike by two months, Nwajiuba, who insisted that the Federal Government had met all of the demands of the union, added that all earned allowances as well as revitalisation funds had been released.
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“ASUU announced and we met and everything that they have demanded, we have done all of them including the earned allowances and the revitalisation fund; they choose to extend it for two months may be,” he said.
This online media platform earlier reported that ASUU had extended its initial one-month warning strike which ended on March 14, for another two months. ASUU had also accused the FG of working against the deployment of the UTAS, a payment platform designed by ASUU in lieu of the IPPIS payment system.
Also, both parties could not reach a beneficial resolution as regards the outstanding 2009 ASUU/FG Agreement.
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