ASUU declares indefinite strike after Buhari’s govt refused to meet demands

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a total and indefinite strike after President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal Government refused to meet their demands.

ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke disclosed this on Monday titled, ‘ASUU strikes are to save public universities’.

He said the union’s National Executive Council (NEC) observed with regret that the union had experienced a lot of deceit at the highest level in the last five and half years, saying the federal government engaged ASUU in fruitless and unending negotiation without a display of utmost fidelity.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the union’s NEC held on Sunday in Abuja.

Newsflash Nigeria understands that ASUU started its ongoing strike on February 14, 2022.

The strike is in protest against the government’s failure to release revitalisation funds for universities, failure to release the white paper report of the visitation panel to universities and the failure to deploy the University Transparency Accountability System for the payment of salaries and allowances of lecturers.

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But the union’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in the statement released on Monday said the NEC regretted that the union had experienced deceit of the highest level for over five years, adding that the government engaged ASUU in fruitless and unending negotiation without a display of fidelity.

The statement read:

 “In view of the foregoing, and following extensive deliberations on the government’s response to the resolution of February 14, 2022, so far, NEC concluded that the demands of the union had not been satisfactorily addressed. Consequently, NEC resolved to transmute the roll-over strike to a comprehensive, total and indefinite strike action beginning from 12.01 am Monday, August 29, 2022.

“NEC acknowledges with appreciation past and current efforts by eminent Nigerians and groups to mediate in the lingering crisis. Our union remains open to reasonable engagements as we have always done.

“However, ASUU remains focused on the full implementation of December 23, 2020, Memorandum of Action for quick restoration of industrial harmony in Nigeria’s public universities.

 “NEC noted with pains, its concerns for Nigerian students who are also our wards and foster children and condemned the government’s seeming indifference to their plights.  Were it within our control, our universities would never have been shut for one day.”

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