Ngige Lied, No Agreement To Call Off Strike – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has said that the minister of labour, Dr. Chris Ngige lied when he said that the ongoing strike action by the union would be called off on December 9.

Dr. Ngige had following the presentation of the latest government offers claimed that the union promised to call of the months long strike action on December 9.

However, rebuffing the claim, the president of the union, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi speaking to journalists late on Monday said:

In his words: “The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been inundated with enquiries on why the ongoing strike action has not been suspended. This was sequel to the widely reported claims by some government agents that all the demands of ASUU have been met and that the union agreed to suspend the strike action today, 9th December 2020. Nothing can be farther from the truth!

“The ASUU leadership did not reach any understanding with the government to suspend the strike on 9th December 2020 and there is nothing in the government offer of 27th November 2020 to suggest that conclusion as allegedly claimed by the Minister of Labour and Employment.

“The leadership of ASUU has consistently stated at every meeting with high ranking government officials that the union’s representatives have no mandate to take the final decision on any strike action by the union. All the leadership does is to present government offers through its organs, and that we have done faithfully in the current situation.

“ASUU members, as stakeholders in the Nigerian University System, are equally worried and embarrassed that those in the position of authority, over the years, displayed seeming indifference to the rot and decay in Nigeria’s public universities. We think it is not too late to do a rethink. We believe if there is the will, there will be a way.”

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