FG v. ASUU: More Than 100 Professors To Defend Protracted Strike

FG v. ASUU: More Than 100 Professors To Defend Protracted Strike

EKO HOT BLOG reports that at least hundred members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) who are professors of law may be defending the union against the Federal Government at the National Industrial Court (NIC) on Monday (today).

It was earlier reported that the NIC, on Sunday, summoned the FG and ASUU to appear before it on Monday in Abuja over the lingering strike embarked upon by the union over seven months ago.

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This is coming after all efforts by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to return the striking lecturers to class failed.

ASUU, among others things are demanding the release of the revitalisation fund for universities, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, deployment of the University Transparency Accountability System (UTAS) for the payment of salaries and allowances of lecturers, release of the white paper report of the visitation panels to universities and the renegotiation of the ASUU-FGN 2009 agreement.

Daily Post quoted ASUU president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke as confirming the court case, adding “that is what I was just told, I’m currently on my way to Abuja for the case”.

A lecturer, who is also a member of the ASUU, also said that some of the Professors that will appear in court on Monday are Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs).

“Why do we need to hire lawyers when we have over a hundred professors of law who are ready to storm the court on Monday?

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“ASUU is not like any other union, this is another joke from the Federal Government. Instead of them trying to find solution to the problem, they are busy distracting the general public”, he added.

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