The Federal Government has been given a three-week ultimatum by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU threatens new strick to comply with its demands or face labor unrest.
At an emergency news conference conducted at the FUD, ASUU Secretariat in Dutse, Comrade Salim Ahmed,
The Chairperson of the ASUU Federal University Dutse, FUD, Branch in Jigawa State, issued the warning.
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He stated that ‘to contemplate and take an examination at the nationalistic appointments of the Union together with the Federal and State governments on the greatest way to address all the remaining challenges bedeviling Nigerian Public Universities,’
the members of the Further Development Executive Officers of the ASUU Federal University Dutse met today, Wednesday, June 19, 2024.
He claimed that ASUU had noted that the current administration has consciously He said that since the Union’s founding on May 29, 2023, ASUU has noted that the current administration has willfully disregarded the Union’s leadership.
‘Every attempt made by the Union’s leadership to get the government to call a meeting and hear ASUU’s concerns to resolve the conflicts by the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) collective bargaining principle has been unsuccessful,’ he stated.
According to Ahmed, all of the major concerns raised by ASUU members—university autonomy, funding for the revitalization of Nigerian universities,
and the expansion of public universities—are covered in the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement that was renegotiated.
He continued by saying that all of the contentious points listed in the FGN/ASUU MoU 2012/2013 are among the fundamental problems relating to the condition of service.
With the MoA of 2017, which released three and a half (7) months of the outstanding three and a half (7) months of withheld salary for work that had already been completed,
and illegally dissolved the governing councils at federal and state universities.
‘Others include the payment of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA), the implementation of the Visitation Panels’ report, the release of third-party deductions made by IPPIS,
the unpaid salaries of our members who are on sabbatical, adjunct, etc., as a result of IPPIS’s inadequacy and inefficiency, and the adoption of UTAS instead of IPPIS.
‘In light of all of this, members of our wonderful union in this branch, as well as those in the other branches,
believe that the federal government is unprepared to take significant action to resolve the unresolved problems. Therefore,
The union decided to hold a press conference following the National Secretariat’s directives to inform parents and other stakeholders in higher education about the situation and to make them aware of the government’s failure to address these persistent issues.
‘The actual state of affairs should be known to the general public.’
Ahmed revealed that the union would put mechanisms in place to further mobilize its members and educate them for further action over the next three weeks.
ASUU threatens new strick
‘The union urges all intelligent, well-meaning people to persuade the Nigerian government to address these unresolved matters and arrange a meeting with our union leadership to prevent an unneeded and needless industrial crisis in our academic system, which is already feeble and fragile,’ Ahmed said.
