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ASUU COMMENCES NATIONWIDE STRIKE

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, on Monday declared that it has commenced an indefinite nationwide strike.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on
Monday declared that it has commenced with
immediate effect a “comprehensive, total and indefinite” nationwide strike.
The Union National President, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge
made the declaration at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) after their National
Executive Council meeting held at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun
State on Monday.
Fagge was quoted saying, “We are embarking on
indefinite strike nation wide because the Federal Government reneged in the
Memorandum of Understanding MoU signed with ASUU in 2009 to pay lecturers their
earn allowance.”
The unionist said that the government had also
reneged on the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with the union in December
2011.


In his words, “Before now, there has been this
issue of the implementation of the key issues contained in the 2009 agreement
we entered into with the
Federal Government.
“We have had several meetings and deliberations to
let government understand why these issues must be resolved but it is like the
more we meet
and deliberate, the messier the issue gets.
“One of the issues that needed to be addressed was
basically that of the academic earned allowance. This earned allowance and
other issues had dragged on until government then agreed to write an MOU with
the union.
“But as we speak, there has been nothing to show
that government was committed to an MOU it also willingly wrote to better the
university sector. It is in this regard that we are embarking on an indefinite
strike.”

He also added that in 2009, the Federal Government
made a law to pay each lecturers N12,500 per month as earn allowance which it
never did since 2009.
Fagge said that having waited patiently for the
government to swing into action to no avail, the NEC of the union decided to
meet, deliberate and come up with the action.
The union leader said that the decision to embark
on the strike was painful but that there was no going back until government
takes positive steps to address their demands.

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