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New Hope on Asuu Strike- FG Re-opens Talks With ASUU Over Pend
ing Strike
By: mr nad Date: September 19, 2013, 1:44 am
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The latest report reaching us is that the Federal Government may
have reopened dialogue with the leadership of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU), in a bid to end the over two
months old strike.
This came just as the National Association of Nigerians Students
(NANS) urged both government and ASUU to return back to the
negotiation table, with each party willing to shift ground from
their previous positions.
Indications to the new development with ASUU emerged on Monday,
when journalists were called to cover the meeting, which was
eventually postponed till next week, with a ministry official
saying this was to allow the supervising Minister of Education,
Mr Nyesom Wike, get proper briefing on the current standpoint of
the issues involved.
Wike was joined by the Minister of Labour and Productivity,
Chief Emeka Wogu, for the meeting scheduled for 12 noon at the
Federal Ministry of Education conference room before it was
called off.
Nigerian Tribune gathered that the resumption of talks followed
the exit of the former Minister of Education, Professor
Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, who was dropped last week by President
Goodluck Jonathan alongside eight other ministers.
The negotiation between the government and leadership of ASUU
broke down over disagreement on payment of academic earned
allowance to union members. Meanwhile, the Nigerian students,
under the auspices of NANS, have called on both the Federal
Government and ASUU to return back to the negotiation table, in
order to resolve their differences in good faith.
Acting Senate president of NANS, John Shima, while addressing
newsmen in Abuja, lauded the sack of Professor Rufa’i and other
ministers, as part of the initiatives of President Jonathan to
retool the government.
“ASUU and Federal Government should go back to the negotiating
table. Even after wars, issues are resolved at the roundtable.
Nigerian students have been idle for 78 days.
“Nigerian students are tired of sitting at home. Both parties
are urged to shift ground to ensure quick resolution of the
crisis. “We lost almost three years of study time in the last 10
years due to strikes; the lost time being enough to graduate a
student in Germany,” Shima said.
Meanwhile, Benue State governor, Mr Gabriel Suswam, has vowed to
get tough on striking lecturers of Benue State University,
Makurdi, by evoking “no work, no pay” policy if they refuse to
call off what he described as their “sympathy strike,” which had
paralysed academic activities in the state.
Suswam said state-owned universities like that of Benue had no
reason whatsoever to remain on strike, since it was federal
universities and not states that were earlier involved in the
negotiation with the Federal Government.
Suswam explained that Benue State University had been benefiting
fully from the earned allowance for which the Federal Government
voted N30 billion and had no cause to be complaining. Article
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