The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) plans to embark on another round of industrial action following what it called the failure of the Nigerian Government to implement an agreement signed with the Union.
The Union’s President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this in an interview on Sunday with PUNCH.
ASUU gave the Nigerian government till the 31st of August (Tuesday) to reach out or it will activate the procedure of embarking on the strike.
He revealed that the government officials have stopped communicating with ASUU.
He said, “The government has refused to reach out to us. Government officials have stopped. In fact, they don’t take our calls again. Nigerians should tell the government to do what they agreed to do.
“We signed an agreement and even in May, we reached a final agreement; this is August and nothing has been implemented. Does it make any sense? We are giving them till the end of August and after that, we start the procedures.”
Recall that in March 2020, ASUU embarked on a strike following its disagreement with the FG over the funding of the universities and the ineffectiveness and discrepancies around the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System and others.
ASUU, however, developed the University Transparency and Accountability Solution to replace IPPIS and had several meetings with the Ministries of Finance, Education, Labour and Employment, and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation before it was approved but yet to be implemented.
