ASUU threatens fresh strike, issues 3 weeks ultimatum to Nigerian Govt

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has therefore given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum within which it would firmly start an industrial action if its demands are not looked into.

ASUU FUD Branch Chairman in Jigawa State, Comrade Salim Ahmed, stated this during an emergency press briefing held at the FUD, ASUU, Secretariat in Dutse.

In his own words, “The Members of the Expanded Executive Officers of the ASUU Federal University Dutse met today, Wednesday, June 19, 2024, to decide and take a cursory look at the patriotic activities of the union and/or federal and state governments on how to effectively tackle all the issues affecting Nigerian public universities”.

He further said that the present administration had chosen not to recognize the leadership of the Union after it assumed office on May 29, 2023. On the incidents in which the leadership of the Union has employed every possible method to get the government to schedule a meeting and listen to ASUU to deliberate on the contentious issues embodying the ILO principle of collective bargaining, it stated that all have failed.

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Ahmed said the renegotiation of the FGN/ASUU 2009 agreement contains all the core issues of ASUU members’ welfare: University Accommodation and Funding for Rehabilitation of University Education in Nigeria, positive efforts such as University Autonomy, Funding for the Re-establishment of Nigerian Universities and The Advancement of the Public Universities.

He stated that the core areas of discussion concerning the state of service comprise all such contentious questions, which are covered in FGN and ASUU MoU 2012/2013, MoA of 2017, proscription of governing councils in the federal and state universities, and release of three and a half (7) months of the outstanding three and a half withheld salaries for work done.

Others are the payment on the unpaid sabbatical, adjunct, etc salaries due to IPPIS inadequacies and inefficiency, the release of third-party deductions by IPPIS, payment of Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) and implementing the report of the visitation panels as well as replacing IPPIS with UTAS.

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From all these, the members of our great union in this branch like the other branches think it fit to inform parents and stakeholders in university education that the Federal Government seems not willing to confront the outstanding issues with the union squarely; For this knowledge and by the direction from the national secretariat, we arranged this press briefing.

“It means the general public should know the truth or reality of the situation. ”

Ahmed revealed that, in the next three weeks, the union would coordinate more and develop ways of sensitizing its members on further actions to be taken.
“The union is appealing to all reasoning and reasonable human beings that this ought not to be so and is therefore calling on the Nigerian government to address these outstanding issues and come to terms with our union leadership, to prevent an avoidable industrial action that may further comp ob any frail and weak university system that we have,” Ahmed stated.

Source: Dailypost

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According to NAN, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, stated that the move was aimed at resolving the sector’s persistent crisis.

On Tuesday in Abuja, Ngige told reporters about the long-running protest by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and others.

Universities would receive N23.5 billion, polytechnics N6 billion, and colleges of education N4 billion, totaling N34 billion, according to Ngige.

While providing an update on the current strike, the minister stated that during the most recent tripartite meeting of the government and university-based unions, committees were formed.

He claimed they had been given a fortnight to submit their report and that they were still working on it, with committee reports due by the end of the week.

“Those committees are doing their jobs. The one on the National Information Technology Development Agency is putting three platforms to the test: the government’s Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, ASUU’s University Transparency Accountability Solution, and non-teaching staff’s Universities Peculiar Personnel Payroll System.

“On Thursday, they began the testing. The National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission has released their revision circulars. The unions have copies as well, in case responsibility or hazard allowances have not been correctly recorded.”

As the government accelerates efforts to streamline pay through the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission, Ngige assured that wage modifications are likely.

He urged ASUU and other unions to call off their strike so that academic activity at public universities could resume.

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