Why We Extended Strike– ASUU President Speaks | READ IN FULL

Why We Extended Strike– ASUU President Speaks | READ IN FULL

The President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has opened up on the Union’s extended strike.

ALL FACTS NEWSPAPER (AFNEWS), had reported that the National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU, after a meeting held in Abuja on Sunday night, resolved to extend the one month warning strike it embarked on February 14 by 2 months.

According to a statement issued by Osodeke, NEC after deliberating on reports on the engagements with Trustees of the Federal Government, resolved that the government failed to address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA).

The said failure by the FG to meet the MoA, influenced the strike extension for 2 months extra.

The statement read in part;

“NEC acknowledged the intervention efforts, in various ways, by patriots and friends of genuine national development (students, parents, journalists, trade union leaders, civil society activists etc.) to expeditiously resolve the crisis which Government’s disposition had allowed to fester.

“However, ASUU, as a union of intellectuals, has historic obligations to make governments honour agreements.

“NEC, having taken reports on the engagements of the Trustees and Principal Officers with the Government, concluded that Government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks to give Government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible.

“The roll-over strike shall commence by 12.00am on Monday, 14th March 2022.”