The
Nigerian Senate has mandated its President, Bukola Saraki, to
personally lead the intervention towards resolving the brewing
industrial crisis between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU.
The Senate resolved to muster efforts at
stopping a protracted ASUU strike on Tuesday, barely 24 hours after the
Union announced one-week warning strike, starting tomorrow.
The Senate resolution followed a motion
on “matter of urgent national importance” with regards to the planned
ASUU industrial action by Jibrin Barau (APC-Kano).
The warning strike, ASUU said, is over the failure of the Federal Government to implement terms of the 2009 and 2013 agreements.
“Many aspects of the 2013 MoU and the
2009 agreement with the Federal Government have either been
unimplemented or despairingly handled,” ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi,
said at the University of Abuja on Monday.
“The agreements are: Payments of staff
entitlements since December 2015, funding of universities for
revitalisation, pension, TSA and university autonomy and renegotiation
of 2009 Agreement.”
Backing ASUU in his motion, Mr. Barau
argued that ASUU was agitating for smooth running of Nigerian public
universities and staff welfare which basically formed the terms of the
agreements perfunctorily implemented – or not implemented at all – by
the Federal Government.
In his contribution, Danjuma Goje
(APC-Gombe), lamented plights of students of public universities
whenever lecturers embark on strike, thereby calling for avoidance of
ASUU strike.
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