By Aminu Kutama
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has once again extended its ongoing strike by another four weeks after its roll-over strike expired on July 31, 2022.
ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, who disclosed this in a press statement titled, “Review Of The Roll-over Strike.” said the union took the decision after extensive deliberations and taking into consideration, the government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA).
Osodeke added that the NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues. The roll-over strike action, according to him, is with effect from 12.01a.m. on Monday, August 14, 2022.
The NEC meeting took place against the backdrop of government’s obligations as spelt out in the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with ASUU on December 23, 2020.
ASUU NEC also viewed with seriousness the recent directive given by the President and Visitor to all Federal Universities that the Minister of Education, in consultation with other government officials, should resolve the lingering crisis and report to him within two weeks.
The Union also expressed disappointment with how it had taken five full months and needless muscle-flexing for government to come to the realisation of the need for honest engagement.
“Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues. The roll-over strike action is with effect from 12.01a.m. on Monday, 14 August 2022.”
