ASUU Update-We won't call off strike, ASUU tells FG

ASUU Update-We won't call off strike, ASUU tells FG
Striking university teachers on Wednesday insisted that they would not return to the
classrooms until the Federal Government honoured fully the 2009 agreement and
Memorandum of Understanding signed by
the two parties. This came as there were conflicting reports from the University of
Jos over the institution post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination.
While the striking teachers insisted on Wednesday that the exercise would not hold,
the school authorities said the screening was
in progress.
University teachers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
embarked on a nationwide industrial action on July 1, 2013. However, the Ibadan
Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Dr. Adesola Nassir, during a briefing at the University of
Lagos, on Wednesday insisted that the strike
would not end until the
Federal Government respected the signed pact.
The zone has members
drawn from UNILAG,University of Ibadan,
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun
State; Olabisi Onabanjo
University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State; Lagos State
University, Ojo; Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagu, Ogun State and the Federal University of
Agriculture, Abeokuta,
Ogun State.
Nassir explained that though the union met with the government's representatives,
including the members of the Senate Committee on Education last Monday, the
meeting ended in a deadlock. He said, "This is
because the Federal
Government is still not being sincere to address the issues at stake.
"The strike will remain for as long as it takes the Federal Government to be faithful to the implementation of the 2009 agreement and its
renegotiation as contained in the Memorandum of
Understanding reached by both parties in January last year."
He explained that the FG's response to the action since it started had shown that it was not ready to address
the challenges facing the nation's university system.
Meanwhile, the ASUU UNIJOS chairman, Dr. David Jangkam, has urged parents not to send their children to the school for the post- UTME.
He said, "No parent should send their children to UNIJOS because the ongoing
strike is total,comprehensive and indefinite and so no academic activities in whatever form is supposed to take place."
However, the university
said the screening was
in progress. Speaking with
journalists on Wednesday, its Registrar, Mr. Jilli Dandam, called on the public and participating candidates to disregard
any contrary announcement from the
striking teachers.