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ASUU Extends Its Strike For Another 12 Weeks
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ASUU Extends Its Strike For Another 12 Weeks 

The Strike has been on since February 2022

By Omotayo Olutekunbi

The strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities has been extended for another 12 weeks.

The union said in a statement signed by its president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the extension was intended to provide the Federal Government ample time to settle all remaining concerns properly.

The roll-over strike began at 12:01 a.m. on May 8, 2021, according to Osodeke.

The decision was reached at a meeting of the union’s National Executive Council held at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja.

The statement reads in part; “The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held an emergency meeting on Sunday, 8th May 2022 at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, Abuja.

“After extensive deliberations, noting Government’s failure to live up to its responsibilities and speedily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) within the additional eight-week roll–over strike period declared on 14th March 2022, NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for twelve weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.

“The meeting was called to review developments since the Union declared an eight-week total and comprehensive roll-over strike action at the end of its emergency NEC meeting at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, Abuja on 14th March, 2022.

“The strike action came on the heels of the Government’s failure to satisfactorily implement the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with the Union in December 2020 on renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), Earned Academic Allowances (EAA), funding for revitalization of public universities (both Federal and States), proliferation and governance issues in State Universities, promotion arrears, withheld salaries (owed for over 20 months in some cases), and Non-emittance of third-party deductions.”

Remember that ASUU announced a one-month warning strike in February to force its demands on the federal government.

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