ASUU may go back on strike, accuses FG of breaching agreement

Strong indications have emerged that the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, ASSU, may consider
going back on strike following the federal
government inability to honour the agreement it
reached with the government during the last ASUU strike.



This development is coming few months after the
union suspended its six-month-old strike that
grounded the university system last year.
The union, through its National Treasurer, Dr.
Ademola Aremu, lamented that the Federal
Government was yet to honour the agreement that
N20 billion would be released at the beginning of
each quarter to meet identified needs in universities.
Aremu, during an interview with newsmen at the
Post Graduate Hall, University of Ibadan, weekend,
said, “This is February and the government is yet to
release the money for the quarter.”
According to him, the call was necessary to avoid
the embarrassment that the last strike caused the
nation.
His words, “All the strike ASUU had embarked upon
in this country were basically because the Federal
Government failed to honour agreements freely
entered with us.
“It is also sad that each time, before we begin the
strike, we would give the government enough
warnings and grace to make them retrace their
steps, but they will always fail.
“We don’t know why the government is always
unwilling to implement the documents signed by
their representatives. However, we will continue to
fight for the system because if the system collapses,
we will collapse with it.”
Adding his voice to the development, ASUU
chairman, UI chapter, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, said it
was unfortunate that successive governments in
Nigeria failed to learn from history as they always
wait until major standoff with their members before
doing the needful.