ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke
By Our Reporter
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the union will call off its strike in a few days.
Osodeke said this during the union’s meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives in Abuja on Monday.
“In a few days, we will put this strike to an end,” the ASUU President said.
Osodeke further commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the House of Representatives for their intervention in the ASUU strike.
He added: “Let all of us working together and the members of the House of Representatives working together, put a beautiful end to this thing we have started so that every Nigerian will be proud that we have the universities we can be proud of.
“We also extend our appreciation to the President for intervening in the ASUU strike. And I want to appeal that in future we should not allow strike to linger. Strike should not go beyond two days; if the way the National Assembly has intervened, if we had done that long ago, or those in charge of Labour and Education had done exactly this, we would not have stayed more than two weeks on the strike.
“Strike is all over the world, UK, U.S. all over, but they don’t allow it to last.
“So, once again, thank you very much and we hope that working together, in the next few days, we can put an end to this particular imbroglio in the Nigerian educational system,” Osodeke said.
The union embarked on the industrial action on February 14, 2022, to press home an improved academic environment and welfare of members.
Some of the lecturers’ demands are the funding of the Revitalisation of Public Universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), and promotion arrears.
Others are the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and the inconsistency in the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.
