The meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and Representatives of the Federal government has ended in deadlock again.
Responding to Voice of Nigeria on the outcomes of the meeting held on Tuesday in Abuja, the President of ASUU ,Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke said the meeting yielded no positive outcome to end the six month old strike.
He told Voice of Nigeria that ,ASUU only met with the Prof.Nimi Briggs Committee and the Union had expected the government to sign it agreement or present acceptable compromise but failed to present any progressive position.
According to ASUU President, “the meeting went very bad,they even came with worst conditions than where we were”
“We stated the agreements and we thoughts they will come and say let us sign or if there are little adjustment but they came and presented nothing”
“We didn’t see any Minister, we met with the Nimi Briggs Committee none of them was there including the NUC ES we only met with the re-negitiation committee” Prof. Osodeke added.
The ASUU President however did not disclose the new conditions or terms presented by the Nimi Briggs Committee rather it said it would further address the media on the outcome of the Tuesday meeting.
President Muhammadu Buhari had directed the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, to resolve the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other university-based unions.
The Federal Government had set up the Briggs-led committee to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement between the government and the university-based unions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions, NASU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.
ASUU commenced the ongoing strike on February 14, 2022, following the Federal Government’s failure to meet some of its demands including, the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
Until August 16th the striking lecturers salaries have been stopped by the government following it no work no pay directives .
