Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months.
Gatekeepers News reports that the decision to extend the strike was taken at the union’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja on Monday morning.
The ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke issued a statement after the meeting where he said the extension takes effect at 12:01 am on Monday, March 14, 2022.
The statement read, “NEC was disappointed that Government did not treat the matters involved with utmost urgency they deserved during the four-week period as expected of a reasonable, responsive, and well-meaning administration.
“NEC viewed government’s response, so far, as a continuation of the unconscionable, mindless, and nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian ruling elite towards the proven path of national development which is education.
“NEC acknowledged the intervention efforts, in various ways, by patriots and friends of genuine national development to expeditiously resolve the crisis which-Government’s disposition had allowed to fester.
“NEC concluded that Government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) within the four-week roll-over strike period.
“NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight (8) weeks to give government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible.”
On February 14, ASUU embarked on a one-month warning strike after a similar deliberation of the union’s NEC.
The Academic body accused the federal government of reneging on the agreements it reached to suspend its last industrial action in 2020.
