ASUU STRIKE MAY CONTINUE

ASUU STRIKE CONTINUE

We have observed a rumour been posted here and have spread over the social media that ASUU strike shall be called off on Monday November 4 2013.

Some of these rumours disclosed that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has directed the Lecturers to resume work next week.
Please all these are false. According to ASUU President Prof. Isa Fagge the union will never suspend the strike until the government fulfills it’s agreement with them.
Moreover, the Union has never disclosed to newsmen that they had a meeting with President Jonathan on Friday.

Another thing Nigerians should understand is that President Goodluck Jonathan did not has the right to order ASUU members back to classroom because as a registered trade union, ASUU has the Constitutional and moral right to embark on strike.

ASUU leadership has urged Nigerians to beg the Federal Government and not the union because the union WILL NEVER suspend the strike till the government fulfills the agreement it willingly entered into.

Finally, there is another rumour that Nnamdi Azikiwe University will resume next week.
Please that is false. The Authorities of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka has not announced any resumption date.

ASUU strike: Lecturers list their expectations ahead of Monday’s meeting with Jonathan

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), are hopeful ahead of their meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday and expressed optimism that the four-month old strike, will be called off soon.

The union say they expect the meeting to be mutually beneficial, as they seek to find a lasting solution to the context of the implementation of the 2009 agreement, the 2012 MOU and the recommendations of the Needs Assessment Report. However, ASUU warned that any proposal by the federal government, would be based on a clear acceptance of a framework for the implementation of the 2009 agreement and added that any attempt to impose decisions will not work.

In a statement by its Chairperson from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia state , Dr. Uzochukwu Onyebinama, ASUU asked President Jonathan “to be guided by the principle of honouring agreements in the interest of justice and industrial harmony in the country.

“As the National leadership of our union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities meet with his Excellency, President Goodluck Jonathan, tomorrow 4th November 2013 [tomorrow], we hope that the meeting will be a dialogue that will lead to a mutually acceptable fair and far reaching solution within the context of the implementation of the 2009 agreement, the 2012 MOU and the recommendations of the Needs Assessment Report.

“Any proposal by government should be based on a clear acceptance of a framework for the implementation of the 2009 agreement. Any imposition will not present a solution to the current crisis.

“We therefore call on the President and Commander- in- chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to be guided by the principle of honouring agreements in the interest of justice and industrial harmony in the country”.