The National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said on Tuesday the union didn’t agree with the Federal Government that it would suspend the strike on December 9, 2020.
The Minister of Labor and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige had in an explanation said ASUU vowed to continue on December 9, 2020.
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Ngige additionally said guarantees made to ASUU must be accomplished if the union got back to the classroom.
In any case, Ogunyemi, in a statement stated, “ASUU authority didn’t arrive at any comprehension with the government to suspend the strike on December 9, 2020, and there isn’t anything in the government offer of November 27, 2020, to propose that end as supposedly guaranteed by the Minister of Labor and Employment.
“At our last gathering in the workplace of the Minister of Labor and Employment on November 27, 2020, the ASUU initiative vowed to dependably introduce the most recent government offer to its individuals through the setup custom.
“The most recent proposal by the government makes recommendations on practically all things of interest by the union with courses of events. Among others, the report was endorsed by the Hon. Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, contains proposition on the introduction of the reconstituted FGN-ASUU Renegotiation Committee (first December 2020); the arrival of insights regarding Visitation Panels (first December 2020); chipping away at the actualization of the arrival of the retained pay rates of ASUU individuals (Wednesday, December 9, 2020).
“Condition 9 on the report peruses, ‘In light of these ends came to on things 1-8, ASUU’s administration will counsel its organs with the end goal of suspending the continuous strike.'”
He clarified that the chief officials and trustees who comprised the center of delegates of ASUU at arrangement gatherings with the government were not intrinsically enabled to suspend any strike activity.
“Whatever emerges from a commitment with specialists of the government is an offer which should be reclaimed to the branches through the different organs of the union. Perspectives and points of view on proposals by governments are accumulated and introduced to government specialists as counter-offers.
“This worker’s guild methodology of offer and counter-offer is consistently sent until the National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU – comprising of every perceived administrator – at long last favors what it thinks about a satisfactory proposal from the government. It is really at that time that any strike activity by ASUU can be suspended.”
Ogunyemi likewise said the strike was unnecessary if the government had executed agreements it endorsed with ASUU.
“It was an unnecessary emergency in any case. It happened in light of the fact that the government has reliably neglected to steadfastly actualize the agreements it unreservedly endorsed with the union.
“ASUU individuals, as partners in the Nigerian college framework, are similarly stressed and humiliated that those in the situation of power, throughout the long term, shown appearing aloofness to the decay a lot in Nigeria’s state-funded colleges.
“We think it isn’t past the point where it is possible to do a reconsider; we accept if there is the will, there will be a way,” the ASUU president added.
