Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of showing levity in its ongoing negotiation with the union whose members are currently on a four-week warning strike.
Gatekeepers News reports that the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, told Vanguard, yesterday, that the last meeting between the two sides did not achieve anything because the government team acted as if it did not know the issues at stake.
ASUU said ending the industrial action was dependent on the readiness of the government to take the issue at stake seriously and do the needful.
Osodeke said government’s action and readiness would determine if the extant strike would be called off.
He added that the demands of the union were still the same, including revitalising university education, discontinuance of Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, as the payment system in the universities, payment of promotion and salary arrears, among others.
He said: “Our last meeting did not lead to anything meaningful because the government team acted as if they were not aware of the issues at stake. We have been on this thing for some years now. What we expected from them is to come to the meeting with answers to what we are demanding.
“We were surprised that their team came with no action as to how to resolve the issues. Another meeting is slated for Tuesday and we hope they would change and do the needful.
“What we are asking for has been in public domain for long that almost everybody knows what the issues are. It is surprising that they did not come with any action plan to meet our demands and resolve the issues.”
