{"id":186934,"date":"2022-05-11T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=186934"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T14:21:42","slug":"strike-no-going-back-on-decision-asuu-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/11\/strike-no-going-back-on-decision-asuu-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike: No going back on decision \u2014 ASUU President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said there is no going back on its decision to continue with its ongoing strike following Federal Government\u2019s failure to honour the 2009 agreement.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osedeke, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Osedeke said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/10\/asuu-strike-why-students-cannot-endure-another-12-weeks-gani-adams-to-fg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">union<\/a> took the \u2018difficult decision\u2019 after exhausting all avenues available to amicably settle the matter with the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me give you an example, because this is where we are getting it wrong, when the airline operators said they were going to stop the flights, the Senate and House of Representatives quickly stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because they are affected; they quickly rushed in and addressed the problem, why would they not resolve that of the education sector that is affecting the children of the poor and the ordinary people<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the government is willing to resolve the issues affecting the Nigerians, then there would be no need to go on strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u201cThe problem is the will of government to resolve issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>NAN recalls that ASUU on Monday extended its roll-over strike which started on Feb. 14 by another 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The striking lecturers\u2019 demands include, funding of the revitalisation of public universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears.<\/p>\n<p>Others are the renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and the inconsistency in Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.<\/p>\n<p>Osedeke told NAN that none of these demands had been met by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the issues that made us to go on strike are still there; that is the revitalisation fund, that is putting more money into universities and revitalising the infrastructure in the universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is also the issue of our mode of payments in the universities. There is no university in the world where lecturers are paid salaries from the Accountant General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have challenged them to provide one, if universities are universal body, why are they doing things differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk of negotiation of agreement, proliferation of universities, among others, so there are lots of issues that they have not resolved,\u201d he told NAN.<\/p>\n<p>The ASUU president also said that government had also refused to accept UTAS that he said had been tested and passed with a scored 99.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Osedeke urged the Federal Government to do the needful in order for students to return to schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said there is no going back on its decision to continue with its ongoing strike following Federal Government\u2019s failure to honour the 2009 agreement. 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