ASUU Strike still on unless… – ASUU Chairman

Contrary to rumour making around that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU will call off the industrial action embarked on few weeks ago on THursday, chairman of the Nsukka Zone of ASUU, Dr. Chidi Osuagwu, at a media briefing on the on-going strike action embarked upon by university lecturers in the country at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka debunked such rumour and tagged it as an embarrassment to the union. He reiterated the union earlier stance that unless the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement is fully adhered to, the strike will continue.


The ASUU boss says “Between 2009 and 2011, ASUU had made serious efforts in getting the government to implement the agreement by even embarking on warning strikes, but government on its side paid deaf ears to these efforts.

“It is important to inform the public that the current strike by ASUU is not meant to make any fresh demands on government, but simply and squarely to ask government to rise to the challenges of responsible governance by fulfilling the provisions of an agreement which it freely signed four years ago.”

According to him, ASUU feels embarrassed by the rumours making the rounds that the on-going strike would be called off tomorrow, Thursday, insisting that the strike would continue unless the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement is fully implemented.

Osuagwu argued that Nigeria has adequate resources to properly fund education in the country, describing as regrettable a situation whereby the country spends 25 percent of its budget on members of the national assembly, but cannot meet the 26 percent requirement for the funding of education as prescribed by the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization, UNESCO.