The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday, December 10, 2021, threatened to commence another strike action.
This is coming after the expiration of a three-week ultimatum issued the Federal Government by the union last month.
They, however, called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to honour the agreement reached with the union.
At the end of a meeting of the Ibadan Zone of ASUU held at the University of Ilorin, the zonal coordinator, Professor Oyebamiji Oyegoke, said the union has been pushed to the wall over the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) reached with the government in 2020.
“Any treatment of MoA of 2020 that precludes its full implementation and rejection of IPPIS will be incomplete. If it has taken ASUU’s position of resuming a suspended strike action to rouse the government from its sleep of non-implementation of the MoA of 2020, one needs to ask, how many of such reminders should ASUU give before its demands are met?…” the prof said.
A similar briefing was held by members of the Yola Zone of the union at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the Adamawa State capital.
The zonal coordinator, Dr. Reuben Jonathan, who appealed to Nigerians to add their voices by calling on the government to implement the MoA of 2020, also urged them to hold the government responsible should the union embark on another strike, stressing the need for traditional and religious leaders among others to intervene so as to avert a looming strike.
“We, therefore, call on the general public and concerned citizens to save public universities by compelling the government to honour its agreements,” he appealed.
