ASUU Strike continues as FG, Lecturers meeting deadlocked
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| Dr. Nasir Fagge, ASUU President |
The Monday meeting between striking university lecturers and the federal government ended without a resolution of the crisis.
The meeting, which held at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, was attended by the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Minister of Labour, Emeka Nwogwu; Minister of Education, Rukayyatu Rufai; and the Benue State Governor and head of the government’s delegation, Gabriel Suswan.
The lecturers’ union, ASUU, was led by the President of the union, Nasir Fagge. The meeting lasted for over four hours (from 3:p.m. to about 7:15p.m).
Meanwhile, all hopes that the strike may soon be called off seem to be fading as the Union has indicated that there is no going back on the strike until the Federal government fully implements the memorandum it signed with the Union in 2012. In an interview shortly before the deadlocked Monday meeting, the National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge said: “Who’s talking about demands here? We presented our demands in 2006 and it took us three years to get it into an agreement.The Federal Government signed an MOU in 2012, that’s what we are asking them to honour, period. The strike action will not continue only if they implement the MOU we had last year.”
Dr. Fagge further disclosed that “If we call off the strike when the MOU has not been implemented, of what use was the strike action in the first place? We are holding on until everything is sorted out.”
The industrial action by the lecturers will be fifty days old today
