The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that its National Executive Council will meet at the University of Lagos on February 12 and 13 to decide its next line of actions as regards its plans to go on an industrial action.
According to the union, if nothing is done by the Federal Government by then, the lecturers would embark on an indefinte strike.
ASUU is demanding that the Federal Government implements the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union last year.
The Chairman of the Kwara State University branch, Malete, Dr Salau Sheu, claims the government is avoiding its responsibility by asking ministers to oversee the implementation of the MoA.
Sheu said, ‘It is wrong for President Muhammadu Buhari to assign two ministers to oversee the implementation of the Memorandum of Action signed last year with ASUU.
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‘First, the assigned ministers are not part of the agreement. Only the ministers of Finance and Education were part of the agreement.
‘ASUU is having its National Executive Council meeting at the University of Lagos on February 12 and 13.
‘If nothing is done by the government between now and then, the lecturers may go on strike.’
Africa Today News, New York recalls that ASUU shut down academic activities in public universities in March 2020, until December when the Memorandum of Action (MoA) was signed with the Federal Government.
The Staff Union had last week revealed that it would soon embark on an indefinite strike to press home their demands one month after it suspended a nine-month-old strike.
Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chiarman of the University of Jos chapter of the Union, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Jos.
Maigoro, who described the Federal Government as an ‘unfaithful spouse’, said the union would not relent until the standard of education is uplifted in the country.
The chairman wondered why government had continued to defend the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), a system, he said, has been thrashed by the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK