Asuu declares fresh strike. August 2017

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Ogunyemi: ASUU President
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU
on Sunday declared a nationwide strike action to
commence the same day – Sunday August 13 2017.
The Union took the decision to declare the strike
after deliberations at its National Executive
Council, NEC meeting held at University of Abuja
on August 12 2017, ASUU National President,
Comrade Biodun Ogunyemi said.
Ogunyemi in a document titled, “Strike Bulletin
No.1”, the strike action is to be a total,
comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no
form of academic activities including teaching,
attendance of any meeting, conduct and
supervision of any examination at any level,
supervision of project or thesis at any level
should take place at any of the nation’s
universities.
In the bulletin signed by Ogunyemi, ASUU recalled
that it had to embark on a six month strike
between July and December 2013 and the strike
was suspended when government signed an MoU
with the union. “Of all the items contained in the
MoU, only the N200b out of a total of N1.3tr of
the Public Universities Revitalisation (Needs
Assessment) fund was released.
“The union also embarked on a one week warning
strike in November 2016 to press for the
implementation of 2013 MoU. However government
did not implement the understanding reach
between the union and Federal Government base
on the intervention by the leadership of Senate
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
Stating further, “The union has also met with
the 2009 Agreement Implementation Monitoring
Committee, IMC, and had written several letters
press releases and communiqués on the
outstanding issues to no avail. The National
Executive Council, NEC, of ASUU then met at the
University of Abuja on August 12 2017 to consider
the result of a referendum from all branches in a
bid to ascertain ways of convincing government
to implement outstanding aspects of the 2009 and
the MoU of 2013”.
Ogunyemi listed the outstanding issues with the
Federal Government to include: payment of
fractions/non-payment of salaries; non-payment
of earned academic allowances, non releases of
operational license of NUPEMCO; non
implementation of the provisions of the 2014
pension reform act with respect to retired
professors and their salaries, removal of
universities staff schools from funding by
government and funds for the revitalisation of
public universities.

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