ASUU strike: FG set up a committee to review “No Work, No Pay”
The Federal Government says it has set up a tactical committee to review its “no work, no pay” stance against striking members of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU).
This was disclosed by the Director of Press and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, following the outcome of a meeting by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, with Pro-Chancellors, Chairmen of Councils as well as Vice Chancellors of universities.
The meeting was part of efforts to resolve the seven-month industrial action by lecturers of public universities.
He said the committee is to also look into issues of increase in the salaries of the university lecturers and come up with workable solutions.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu said Federal Government has done all it can to end the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the ASUU.
The Minister stated this on Tuesday while meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities at the National Universities Commission (NUC) Abuja, said all previous efforts by the government to return the lecturers back to class have proved abortive.
He said he and many government officials had engaged the union on several occasions to end the seven-month-old strike.
“We have done the best that we can in the circumstance. After inter-ministerial consultations and rounds of hard negotiations with all government agencies, we interacted with the Unions. I personally, gave it all it required to resolve the current challenges.
“I met the Unions anywhere and everywhere possible with facts, with figures, and with absolute sincerity.
“For example, I directly met with ASUU leadership in my house, in my office and at the ASUU Secretariat on several different occasions, in addition to other formal engagements going on,” he said.
The Minister added that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed them not to accept any demand that is not feasible.
Recall that ASUU had declared a total and indefinite strike last week after President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal Government refused to meet their demands.
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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