ASUU begins indefinite strike

The National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun
Ogunyemi in a text he read while briefing journalists
said, “our members across the country were getting
increasingly frustrated, distracted and disenchanted.
It became evident that their patience had been
tasked beyond reasonable limits and government’s
insensitivity imposed severe burden on the
leadership of the union
“Consequently, based on a nationwide consultation
with our members, an emergency meeting of the
National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU rose on
Saturday, 12th August, 2017 with a resolution to
embark on an indefinite strike action starting from
Sunday, 13th August 2017.
“The nationwide action is total and comprehensive.
During the strike there shall be no teaching, no
examination and no attendance of statutory
meetings of any kind in any of our branch.
In the bulletin signed by Ogunyemi, it was recalled
that ASUU had to embark on a six month strike
between July and December 2013 and the strike
was suspended when government signed an MoU
with the union.
“Of all the items contained in the MoU, only the
N200b out of a total of N1.3tr of the Public
Universities Revitalisation (Needs Assessment) fund
was released,. The union also embarked on a one
week warning strike in November 2016 to press for
the implementation of 2013 MoU. However
government did not implement the understanding
reach between the union and Federal Government
base on the intervention by the leadership of Senate
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
Stating further, Ogunyemi said “The union has also
met with the 2009 Agreement Implementation
Monitoring Committee, IMC, and had written several
letters press releases and communiqués on the
outstanding issues to no avail. The National
Executive Council, NEC, of ASUU then met at the
University of Abuja on August 12, 2017 to consider
the result of a referendum from all branches in a bid
to ascertain ways of convincing government to
implement outstanding aspects of the 2009 and the
MoU of 2013”.
Ogunyemi listed the outstanding issues with the
Federal Government to include: payment of
fractions/non-payment of salaries; non-payment of
earned academic allowances, non releases of
operational license of NUPEMCO; non
implementation of the provisions of the 2014
pension reform act with respect to retired professors
and their salaries, removal of universities staff
schools from funding by government and funds for
the revitalisation of public universities.

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