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Outcome of meeting: ASUU, Govt talks inconclusive!
DIR By: Ebenezer
Date: August 7, 2013, 8:45 am
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Union wants clergy, monarchs, others to prevail on FG
THE ongoing industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU) might not be over anytime soon as
the Federal Government’s re-negotiating committee has failed to
reach a compromise with the union.
Instead, the meeting adjourned for another one week to enable
the sub-committee recently raised to conclude its work on the
details of the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement.
This was made known by ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Isa-Faggae, in
an interview with journalists in Abuja after the meeting with
the Presidential Implementation Committee on NEEDS Assessment in
Nigerian Universities, chaired by Benue State Governor, Gabriel
Suswam.
Meanwhile, apparently foreseeingthat the Federal Government was
in no hurry to cede ground, ASUUyesterday invited the clergy,
traditional rulers and stakeholders to prevail on the Federal
Government to respect the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement and to make
integrity its watchword.
Acting Chairman of Enugu State University of Science and
Technology (ESUT) chapter of ASUU, Uche Omeje, told newsmenin
Enugu that is “demeaning, despicable, and an expression of lack
of integrity on government’s part to renege on its promise.”
According to Omeje, “ASUU and Nigerians are worried by the
institutionalised falsehood and the lack of integrity exhibited
by the Federal Government and hence condemns this perfidy in its
entirety.”
He expressed the determination of union members to continue with
the ongoing strike until government implements the agreement and
memorandum of understanding it freely entered with the union in
2012.
However, Suswam was optimisticthat the end of the strike was in
sight, noting that the issues in contention would be squarely
addressed when the committee reassembles next Tuesday.
Yesterday’s meeting, which took place at the Benue Governor’s
Lodge at Asokoro, and attended by the two ministers in the
Ministry of Education, Executive Secretary of the National
Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okojie, officials of
the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Tertiary Education Trust Fund
(TETFund) and the Senate, representatives of other varsity
unions such as NASU, SSANU and NAATS, among others, did not make
appreciable progress.
Issa-Fagee told newsmen: “You could see that today’s meeting was
very short because the sub-committee has not finished its work.
We are going to resumeagain on Tuesday next week to look at what
the committee has as a final report.”
According to him, the committee is supposed to provide the union
with a template on how best to look at what had been presented
by government in terms of making provisions for infrastructure
rehabilitation in the universities.
Asked how close the union was to calling off the strike, he
said: “Ikeep telling you that I decide how to cross my bridge
when I reach (it). There is nothing on thetable; when the
sub-committee finishes its work and tables it before us, we will
look at it.”
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