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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed why it extended its ongoing strike by eight weeks, accusing the Federal Government of failing to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action.
President of the union, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known in a statement issued on Monday after a NEC meeting which held on Sunday in Abuja.
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Osodeke noted that the National Executive Council during their meeting on Sunday concluded that they would give the FG eight weeks to address all the issues “in concrete terms” so that students would resume.
The statement partly read, “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 Govemment’s disposition had allowed to fester.
“However, ASUU, as a union of intellectuals, has historic obligations to make governments honour agreements.
“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 within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks to give Government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible.
“The roll-over strike shall commence by 12am on Monday, 14th March 2022.”
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