Strike: FG Has Declared Struggle On Our Members

The Tutorial Employees Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the federal authorities of Nigeria of declaring warfare on hanging lecturers in public universities.

Naija Information studies this place was made identified on Wednesday by the ASUU Chairman within the College of Lagos (UNILAG), Dele Ashiru throughout a TV interview.

In response to him, the choice by the federal government to cease the wage of the hanging lecturers and thereby inflict starvation and struggling on them is a declaration of warfare.

He nonetheless added that the lecturers are additionally responding and stay unwavering of their demand.

“Authorities declared warfare on our union, we’re solely responding. Six months or seven months down the road, our members are struggling the implications of a strike attributable to the federal government. When you deploy the weapon of starvation upon individuals that may be a warfare,” he stated throughout an interview with Channels Tv’s Dawn Each day programme.

Talking on the transfer by the federal government to maintain a gathering with Vice Chancellors and Professional-Chancellors on September 6, 2022, over the lingering ASUU strike, Ashiru described it as pointless and a diversionary tactic.

The ASUU chairman argued that the Vice Chancellors and Professional-Chancellors should not those which have points with the federal government, so the assembly shouldn’t be wanted however simply one other alternative to waste funds and time.

He stated the deliberate assembly is “a part of authorities’s diversionary ways” and “one other jamboree to waste authorities’s cash.

“The Vice Chancellors and Professional-Chancellors should not in dispute with the federal government. So, no matter that assembly goes to attain is but to be seen. What authorities ought to focus on doing is to barter with our union,” Ashiru stated.

FG Lied About Assembly 80% Of Our Calls for

Reacting to the claims on Monday by the federal authorities by means of the Director of Press and Public Relations, within the Federal Ministry of Training, Bem Goong that 80% of ASUU calls for have been met, Ashiru described the declare as false.

He stated: “Not one merchandise (has been met), even the one which requires no cash. For instance, we need {that a} authorities White Paper on Visitation Panel be launched. Up until now, greater than two years, (Minister of Training), Adamu Adamu can’t launch White Paper.”

He argued additional that IPPIS is a violation of the college’s autonomy and UTAS needs to be deployed as an alternative.

“Nimi Briggs’ Committee advisable a rise in salaries for our members. It’s about how the federal government can fund public universities and in addition advised to the federal government in keeping with the tripartite settlement that IPPIS be (suspended), as a result of it violates the college autonomy, after which UTAS be deployed,” he stated.

No Extra Committees

Ashiru referred to as on the federal government to take motion and resolve the lingering strike fairly than organising committees again and again.

“Authorities has not demonstrated sufficient good destiny to allow our union to reciprocate and there may be additionally the precept of reciprocity.

“What we expect the federal government ought to do is to take rapid steps to resolve this disaster, not organising committees,” he stated.