could be seen in the case of the ongoing Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, reports have
emerged that the strike might not be called off this week
as hoped.
News surfaced recently that this week might finally see the
end of the four month old strike which has kept thousands
of university students at home.
Contrary to expectations however, it has been revealed
that members of the body might not suspend the industrial
action this week as different branches of the group have
conflicting opinions on whether the strike should be called
off or not.
President Jonathan held a meeting with the leadership of
ASUU last week, where he made some offers which
ASUU was expected to take to their members for
deliberation with the hope that it will pacify them into
resuming academic activities this week.
Congresses of the 61 chapters of the union were therefore
held, yesterday, while the National Executive Council,
NEC, meeting will hold tomorrow in one of the northern
universities.
The outcome of the union's congresses indicated that there
was disagreement on the need to call off the strike.
Vanguard gathered that while some ASUU chapters were
ready to suspend the strike in the light of the President's
intervention, others insisted that they will continue the
strike due to what they described as their distrust for the
government.
It was learnt that while the University of Lagos, UNILAG,
resolved to suspend the strike, chapters like the University
of Ibadan, UI; University of Benin, UNIBEN; University
of Calabar, UNICAL; University of Jos, UNIJOS and the
Lagos State University, LASU, said the strike must
continue, arguing that the Federal Government could not
be trusted to fulfil its promise of injecting over N1.1
trillion to universities in the next five years.
Via: Vanguard
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