The Federal Government and the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) could not agree on Earned Allowance
due to lecturers despite the Senate’s intervention, a situation which
forced the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETfund to
adjourned the peace meeting it convened indefinitely.
The meeting chaired by Senator
Jibrin Barau had in attendance the national leadership of ASUU led by
I’d national president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi; the executive secretary
of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed;
and the director general of the National Pension Commission (PenCom),
Mrs. Ahonu-Amazu, among others.
The meeting ended at about
8.20pm yesterday night without a definite resolution even as the one-week
warning strike embarked upon by ASUU since last Wednesday will end
today.
Briefing journalists after the
meeting, Senator Barau, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on
Tertiary Institutions and TETfund, said the peace meeting agreed on all
issues at stake except the one on ‘earned allowance’, hence the meeting
was called off for further engagements among all parties.
Recall that the Senate had on
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 resolved to mandate Senate President, Bukola
Saraki, to intervene in the looming industrial action with the aim of
averting the strike.
After the first meeting held
behind-closed-doors the next day after the Senate’s resolution at the
Senate President’s Meeting Room 301 at the New Wing of the National
Assembly Complex last week, all parties were upbeat on the quick
resolution of the crisis in the tertiary education sector.
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