The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has maintained that it won’t back off from its industrial action irrespective of the amount of threats the lecturers receive from the government.
ASUU President, Nasir Fagge The Lecturers’ union disclosed this after when he spoke with newsmen shortly after the meetingon Tuesday
The meeting at Benue State University (BSU) held to evaluate contributions of its members in the ongoing strike nationwide.
Fagge in his reaction to government’s threat to institutionalize laws that would end the incessant strikes in the nation’s universities said the government was derailing from the standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
He lamented that rather than implement an agreement it has signed, Nigeria as a signatory to the International Labour Organization (ILO) was threatening the union on making laws that would keep them in check.
He noted that the union would its position on the strike public after collecting and compiling the reports from the all ASUU chapters nationwide.
Fagge urged the members of the public desist from to seeing its fight as a bid to politicize the education sector but as the union’s fundamental stake aimed at improving the sector.
He also said the union is at loggerheads with the Needs Assessment Committee because of the committee is not capable of ensuring the implementation of the recommendations of the agreement.
Meanwhile, a group of former students’ leaders, Past Rivers State Students’ Leaders’ Forum (PARSLEAF) has urged the Federal Government to honour the previous agreement with ASUU to save the educational sector from collapse.
Chairman of PARSLEAF, Mr. Amakiri Amakuro, told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the disagreement between ASUU and the Federal Government would have been resolved if government had acted swiftly on the warning notice from the union.
“We, however, call on the Federal Government to make further commitment to honouring the agreement entered into with ASUU in order to save the educational system from total collapse” he said,
“We passionately appeal to the Federal Government, ASUU and other stakeholders in the educational sector to sheathe their swords,” he said.
He pointed out that use of strike should not be made so elongated more than a few hours as it’s practiced in developed countries.