The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared that no amount of threat through the implementation of no-work-no-pay rule applied by the federal government would force its members to suspend their four months old industrial action.
ASUU, Ilorin Zone, said in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti State, yesterday, signed by its coordinator, who is also the Chairman of the Ekiti State University chapter of ASUU, Dr. Ayan Adeleke, that owners of private universities, who had allegedly been advising President Goodluck Jonathan to whip ASUU into line through no-work-no-pay rule, were doing so for selfish motives.
The threat, according to Adeleke is just strengthening the resolve of his members to continue fighting until a logical conclusion is reached.
ASUU slammed those advising the president to apply the rule, which he described as ‘barbaric, obsolete and inhuman’, but said, no amount of pressure would dissuade the union from ensuring that the federal government implemented the agreements reached with the body in 2009.
Adeleke expressed displeasure at the federal government’s resort to cheap blackmail to coerce ASUU to back down on the struggle, which he said, would further fan the ember of acrimony between the body and the government.
He therefore urged “people and organisations appealing to ASUU to call off the strike to first appeal to the federal government to implement the agreements freely entered into in 2009 to also prevail.”
Adeleke described as shocking, the actions of the President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Yinka Gbadebo, urging him to dissociate himself from ASUU’s strike.
He said the action was the least expected from a body the academic union was trying to protect.
Adeleke assured that ASUU would thwart the alleged efforts by some leaders and cabals, who are masquerading as proprietors of private universities to stifle the public universities to expand the scope of their business empires.
“ASUU is fighting for the sustenance of the Nigerian universities so that half-baked graduates will not litter the labour market while the society will come back to blame their lecturers.
“We will not succumb to blackmail. We will remain focused and insist that the 2009 agreements be implemented,” he said.
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Can som1 plz tell what FG is doing as regards Nasu strike,because i see no reason why their salaries shuldnt have been stopped in the first instance..”NASU shuld please resume o!
Can som1 plz tell what FG is doing as regards Nasu strike,because i see no reason why their salaries shuld have been stopped in the first instance..”NASU shuld please resume o!& FG shuld plz reset dier senses..arrghhh!!!
If my good president said that ASUU ought to be patrotic, then he has to implement the 2009 agreement between the FG and the union if mr president really love Nigerian and his future leaders (youth).ASUU should also have love to their student by negotiating with FG peacefully.God bless Nigeria!