FG To Meet ASUU Over The Ongoing Strike Update Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universit...
FG To Meet ASUU Over The Ongoing Strike Update
Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), said that the union will meet with the federal government today to continue talking about the teachers' strike. This is what Osodeke said on Politics Today, a political show on Channels Television. The president of ASUU said that the union would end the strike if the Federal Government met its demands at today's meeting.
"The strike will end if we go to that meeting tomorrow and the government says, 'What you've asked for, we're willing to sign,'" he said. Remember that the government hasn't reached a deal with ASUU since the Prof. Nimi Briggs-led renegotiation meeting ended.
After the ASUU report was given to the president by the Briggs committee, the president gave the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, two weeks to meet the demands of ASUU.
Osodeke said that the government used the university unions to commit fraud under the guise of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system.
He stated, "We've been shouting about how IPPIS is a scam for a long time now. We've told them that for 16 years, they stole our money through IPPIS and then punished our members." Now they know that it was done by people from outside the country."
After the federal government didn't meet some of ASUU's demands, it went on strike on February 14, 2022.
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Some of the demands are the release of funds to help universities get back on their feet, the renegotiation of the agreement between the government and ASUU from 2009, the release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and the use of the UTAS payment platform to pay lecturers' salaries and allowances.
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