With the ASUU strike raging on, the members of the body have listed 6 new conditions for calling off the strike.
They made this know to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, who is trying to convince them to settle things in a different manner with the situation of stranded students in mind.
The new conditions listed by the University lecturers include:
- The Federal Government should immediately accept payment of shortfall in salaries of universities;
- Universities to manage their IGR the way they like and exemption from TSA;
- Exemption of Endowment Funds, JV cash from TSA;
- Payment of University Salary Scale to teachers in primary schools in universities;
- Release/implementation of guidelines for the retirement of Professors in line with 2009 FG-ASUU Agreement; and
- Waiver/ government fiat to set up Nigerian Universities Pension Management Company
According to the Nation, a well placed source spoke on the matter saying: “ASUU has brought proposals different from the agreement they reached in the Senate with the Federal Ministry of Education.
“They are asking the government to take over the shortfall in the salaries of universities when there were glaring cases of abuse of recruitment process and non-compliance with Integrated Personnel Payment Information System (IPPIS).
“They want the government to accept liability for the shortfall in spite of the fact that universities acted arbitrarily in increasing their wage bill.
“The lecturers have also asked the government to manage their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) henceforth instead of remitting such to the Treasury Single Account (TSA) in line with their demand for autonomy for universities.”