The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has outlined fresh conditions the Nigerian government must take to end its six-month-long academic strike.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the government must exhibit transparency to end the ongoing strike.
“Government should tell us and Nigerians – the money that has been alleged to have been approved for revitalisation – how much is it and where is it lodged? When will it be released?” Osodeke said.
Osodeke added that the government must clearly state its position on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), a payroll system that ASUU wants as a replacement for the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS).
“Three, have they accepted the agreement we reached with their panel? They should come and tell us this, and not go to the press,” Osodeke added.
“Strike is a symptom of a problem. Any day you sort out that problem, you will not have strike.”
ASUU has been on strike since February 14, 2022.
In a related development, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, President of the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU), has said that the union did not ask for students’ help before it embarked on a strike.
DAILY POST recalls that the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) president, Sunday Asefon, had said that students would no longer support the union’s call for intervention.
He accused the ASUU body of being self-serving.
Reacting to the comment by the students’ leadership, Osodeke said students who have been kept at home because of the industrial action had not supported the union’s struggle.
According to him, “Any day students and parents take over this struggle, ASUU body will not have this problem. Had they supported any of our struggles apart from going from one office to another? So leave that alone. Go and ask students in the street, not those leaders”.
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