Their recently conducted NEC Meeting has seen the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU on Monday extending the prolonged industrial action (strike) which they had embarked upon over five months ago by another four weeks while stating irreconcilable differences with the Federal Government as their reason for it.
It can also be recalled that the striking lecturers had also shut down some of the public universities on February 14, 2022, which was following the inability of the Federal Government of Nigeria to implement a Memorandum of Action (MoA) entered by the two parties in 2020.
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National President, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke had in a statement on Monday, mentioned that the decision to further extend the strike was to enable the FG satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues raised.
The development had been sequel to an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council of the union held at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, Abuja, on Sunday.
The statement reads in part, “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.
“The role-over strike action is with effect from 12.01am on Monday, 1st August 2022”.
In another report, in lieu of the given directive which had been handed down by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, which had detailed them to immediately embark on mass protests across the country in support of the demands which had were being pushed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Ekiti State chapter of the congress on Tuesday had also embarked on a protest that caused a gridlock in some of the major areas of the state capital, Ado-Ekiti.
The NLC members barricaded the roads in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, with various inscriptions on their placards.
The Student’s Union also joined in the protest as they all slammed the “non challant attitude and insensitivity of Federal Government to the plight of the lecturers”.