ABUJA — The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its warning strike for months.
The National President of ASUU Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who spoke to reporters after the NEC meeting held at ASUU’s National Secretariat, University of Abuja, said the roll-over strike shall commence by 12.01am on Monday, March 14, 2022.
Osodeke explained that ASUU’s NEC held an emergency meeting on Sunday, March 13, 2022, and review developments since the Union declared four weeks total and comprehensive roll-over strike action at the end of its NEC meeting at the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos on February 12-13, 2022.
He said 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 funding for revitalization of public universities (both Federal and State), renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), Earned Academic Allowances, State Universities, promotion arrears, withheld salaries, and non-remittance of third-party deductions.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has reacted to the extension of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba claimed the government met all the demands of the union.
In an interview with newsmen at the end of the commemoration of the 2022 Commonwealth Celebration in Abuja, Nwajiuba said all earned allowances, as well as the revitalization funds demanded, had been released.
“ASUU announced and we met and everything that they have demanded, we have done all of them including the earned allowances and the revitalization fund; they choose to extend it for two months maybe,” Nwajiuba said.
