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Strike: FG, ASUU Meeting Ends In Deadlock

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August 17, 2017
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THE meeting held between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday to resolve the ongoing strike embarked upon the union ended in a deadlock.

Ay tje meeting wherein the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, and his counterpart in Education, Adamu Adamu, represented the Federal Government, and ASUU president, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, led the union’s team both parties agreed to reconvene within a week to continue the negotiations.

It was gathered that the government made some offers during the less than one hour meeting, but both sides refused to disclose thw offers to the media, though the offers were, however, said to be acceptable to the union leaders.

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Briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting, both sides said there was tremendous progress, following offers made by government and position of the union on the new offers.

ASUU President said he was taking the deliberations and offers by government to members, with a view to responding appropriately to them  within one week.

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Ngige said: “The meeting, as you can see, was not very long and we touched on various areas of the dispute. The  major issue is for us to see that the strike is called off so that our children can go back to school and ASUU graciously said they would come back to us on a date within the next one week.”

On his part, ASUU president, Prof. Ogunyemi, said: “Well, like the Honourable Minister said, there were some offers by government and we have taken copious notes of their offers but we have to get back to our members, lay all the information available to them first to consider and advise us.

“So, based on their advice, based on their positions, we will come back to government, with a view to getting responses.”

Meanwhile, Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said on Thursday, that the on-going strike by ASUU would be called off next week, adding that N53 billion would be released to the union.

Speaking before the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, led by Senator Jibrin Barau APC, Kano North, the Minister disclosed that the executive arm of government had commenced plans to ensure that it honoured the agreement with ASUU.

The Minister, who noted that he had written to the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, for the money, disclosed that she had already approved the money, adding that the money would be paid on Monday when  the  striking lecturers would receive the cheque.

He said: “ASUU  asked for N23billion to be paid, but we said the condition for getting the N23billion  was for them to account for the N30billion they had taken and they were not able to account for it.

“The Minister of Finance undertook to do the audit from the ministry and we agreed that the result will be known  in six months. During that six months, government undertook to be paying ASUU  N1.5billion each month during the time they were waiting for this.

‘’However,  their grouse was that the forensic audit promised by the Minister of Finance had not been done and the money promised not paid.

“So, at our meeting two days ago, the agreement was to pay them all and do forensic audit on the entire N53billion.

“That was what I tried to do yesterday (Wednesday). I wrote to the Minister of Finance and she has already approved and this money will be paid. Probably, by  Monday, they will be able to receive the cheque.

“We didn’t agree  with ASUU on their request  that TSA should be taken out. I told them that it is not possible because it is a  new policy and government is not going to change it for anyone.

“Concerning their salary short fall, we said the reason springs from universities employing people without proper authority.”

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