The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has claimed the Federal Government has done nothing to end the ongoing strike of the association.
This challenge was thrown at the FG by the University of Abuja branch chairman, Dr Kassim Umaru, who spoke at the end of its Congress held at the University’s Mini Campus in Gwagwalada on Tuesday.
He disclosed that the ongoing strike will continue because the Federal Government is yet to call the union for discussion.
Umaru said: “As far as we’re concerned, the federal government hasn’t done anything to our various demands.
“The federal government should tell the Nigerian public what they’ve done. The two committees that were set up, the Nimi Briggs committee, the Jubrin committee, were set up and these committees had their recommendations.”
He lamented that they always have to negotiate their salaries because the government feels they don’t deserve their pay.
Umaru continued, “As far as we are concerned, our job is different from any other civil servants; it’s the job you are going back to do. You’re not paying for an hour. You’re paying for the job we have done, so it’s their responsibility to pay us and if they said they’re not paying us, it is a joke taken too far.
“As it’s, they have not called our union and Nigerians should know that we’ve not been called, no invitation to our union and all that we know is that the strike continues.”
Recall that ASUU, on February 14, shut down public universities over the inability of the Federal Government to implement previous agreements both parties entered into.
The lecturers’ agitations include funding for the revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution, promotion arrears and others.
