Strike: FG Yet To Meet Any Of Our Demands, Says ASUU

Strike: FG Yet To Meet Demands, Says ASUU
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged Nigerians to reject the Federal Government’s assertions that it has complied with the union’s demands.

The claims made by the Federal Government are false, according to Prof. Akinwole Ayoola, the ASUU chairman of the University of Ibadan.

According to the union, all of its chapters that initiated the now more than six-month-old strike are still participating in it and are steadfastly committed to obtaining the funding that public universities require from the government in order to thrive and compete internationally.

The union maintained that lecturers in Nigerian universities had been using their blood to fund public universities and that it would not sacrifice the wellbeing of its members or submit to any attempt to reduce intellectuals to subservient servants of reckless leadership.

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He said, “Nigerians should disregard the lies of the Federal Government. The Federal Government is far from meeting any of the union’s seven demands.

“The union gave 14-month strike notice to Federal Government before commencing the strike in 2022. Even the effort of the Nigerian Inter-Religious council in 2021 yielded no results before the union was forced to declare the strike on February 14, 2022.

“We waited for 14 months from December 2020 to February 2022 before declaring this strike. I am saying 14 months’ notice, 14 months of engagements and the Nigeria Inter-Religious council intervened in 2021 when we would have declared the strike. We gave them one month with no result. Heroes are gone before they are appreciated but our union will not die. We will not die. We are going to be alive to see this struggle through,” he maintained.

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