The ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities Strike will be suspended within the next 24 hours.
However, ASUU gave some conditions that have to be met before the strike can be officially called off.
It said the strike would be suspended after the resolutions reached with President Goodluck Jonathan on November 4 are accepted.
However, the union described the statement credited to the Minister
of Education, Nyesom Wike, that ASUU was making new outrageous demands
as “untrue and absolute lie.”
ASUU said it asked President Jonathan to facilitate the endorsement
of resolutions reached with him and signed by high ranking government
official preferably the Attorney-General of the Federation but not a
permanent secretary.
It said a representative of the body including the President of
Nigeria Labour Congress, Abdulwahid Omar, would stand as witnesses.
The union said it wanted the N200 billion agreed upon as 2013
revitalisation fund for public universities to be warehoused with the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and disbursed to the benefiting
universities.
ASUU’s position was conveyed by the union National Treasurer, Dr.
Ademola Aremu, while speaking with The Nation in an interview in Ibadan
on Wednesday.
He said the union appreciated the intervention of President Jonathan
but noticed that some of the resolutions reached with the President were
not included in the letter sent to the union.
The supervising Minister of Education was, according to Dr. Aremu,
economical with the truth by not telling Nigerians that apart from the
N30 billion earned allowances released for university staff, the
government was yet to release the N100 billion claimed to have been
released.
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