Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have warned of an imminent strike should the federal government fail to address pressing issues affecting Nigerian universities.
This is coming following the failure of the government to honour the Memorandum of Understanding it signed with the union in 2013.
ASUU had embarked on strike in 2012 and 2013 which was to lead towards effective implementation of the agreement.
ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, on Monday in Lagos said: “To date, several aspects of the 2009 agreement the Federal Government freely entered into with ASUU are yet to be implemented.”
Speaking on Earned Allowance, he said, “it was agreed that the Implementation Monitoring Committee, IMC, of the 2009 Agreement shall monitor and verify the level of payment already made from the N30 billion released by the Federal Government and report back on the exact situations in the universities on this matter.”
He disclosed that of the N30 billion disbursed, only about N13 billion went into partly settling the claims of ASUU, leaving behind a huge amount to be settled by government.
According to him, the inability of the government to honour and fully implement these aspects of the 2013 MoU is generating an unprecedented level of agitation on our campuses
“The refusal of government to release the outstanding balance of N128,250 692,596.47 billion, almost three years after the signing of the MoU, is a clear breach of the MoU,” he said.
“It is unacceptable that this government has turned a blind eye to the matter, the Union totally rejects this attitude by government,” he added.
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