Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU has resolved to transmute the roll-over strike to a comprehensive, total and indefinite strike action .
The strike action begins from 12.01a.m. on Monday, 29th August, 2022.
This was made known in a statement signed and released by the ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke , after the meeting of the National Executive Council of the held in it National Secretariat, Abuja.
The National Executive Council oof ASUU concluded that the demands of the Union had not been satisfactorily addressed hence it declaration for total comprehensive and indefinite strike.
According to the Union , ASUU strikes are aimed at saving public education, and ensuring that Governments (Federal and State) use common patrimony to support quality public university education.
“In view of the foregoing, and following extensive deliberations on Government’s response to the resolution of 14th February, 2022 so far, NEC concluded that the demands of the Union had not been satisfactorily addressed. Consequently, NEC resolved to transmute the roll-over strike to a comprehensive, total and indefinite strike action beginning from 12.01a.m. on Monday, 29th August, 2022”
Defence of Process
NEC noted that, in defence of the integrity of the process leading to the agreement reached with government, the Briggs Committee had confirmed that all the proposals and recommendations it made to ASUU were properly discussed and cleared with their Principal.
” The Committee also confirmed that throughout the renegotiation process, all the relevant government agencies, including National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Budget and Finance and Federal Character Commission (FCC), were in attendance”
“In addition, the paid advert by the Briggs-led Government Team equally showed that the figure of N1.1 Trillion quoted by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and his Minister of State, Festus Keyamo, and some other government officials as amount needed to implement the salary increase, came from some imaginative blues and was no way close to reality”
ASUU however commend members of Nimi Briggs-led Team for their unprecedented act of courage.
It pointed that Government has not delivered on the promised balance of one tranche of the Revitalization Fund more than one year after, the outstanding two tranches of the Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) have not been released.
On UTAS
University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) has not been adopted and deployed to replace the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS); and the White Papers on Visitation Panels to Federal Universities have also not been made public.
The statement added that ASUU is open to further engagements as it always done.
“Our Union remains open to reasonable engagements as we have always done. However, ASUU remains focused on the full implementation of the 23rd December, 2020 Memorandum of Action for quick restoration of industrial harmony in Nigeria’s public universities”
ASUU NEC noted its concerns for Nigerian students and condemned what it called Government’s seeming indifference to their plights.
” The Union empathizes with the students, their parents, as well as other stakeholders (including our colleagues who are undertaking their higher degrees) in the universities”
