The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU has said it won't cancel its eight months old strike until the Federal government...
pays all retained compensations and satisfies the offers made to the association so far.
The Federal government, in its most recent proposals to ASUU authority, vowed to pay N40 billion as Earned Allowance and N30 billion for the rejuvenation of the college framework, carrying the absolute installment to N70 billion. The public authority likewise consented to settle the back payments of compensations of the speakers before December 2020, however after due meeting with the public authority side.
The Federal government additionally acknowledged the interest by ASUU that they be absolved from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) forthcoming the endorsement of their proposed installment framework, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
In a visit with The Nation, ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, said none of the guarantees have been satisfied and until they are, the association won't cancel the strike that began in March this year.
“We are still consulting but certainly before the end of this week we will report to the minister the findings and feedback from our members. The offers people are talking about are proposals that have timeless and some of these things are expected to have been happening. If those things they promised with the timeline can happen before we conclude our consultation I think the process will go smoother.
A concrete example is the payment of our members’ salaries which have not been paid. If people are not paid I don’t think anybody will be willing to go back to work and other things that have timeline that we expect government to implement.
“You don’t expect people, after eight months, to go back to the classrooms on empty stomach. That is where we are.
“Before the end of this new week we will get back to government but we keep on telling them each time they contact us that they (government) should fulfill their own part of the bargain, things that have timelines.”
