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omo c gobe o on asuu side. abeg mak una call off jare. una no get talk again. i rest ma case. up GEJ.
Hmmmm........did i hear u say FEDERAL universities????? Then y is state universities on strike since d national moi-moi no go reach them. To be honest, state universities no suppose dy on strike!
Lobatan... Asuu oya reply dis... Ur best reponds should be d strike as been suspended. So that there will nt be a loser or winner in dis long story strike... Just will help u that u come back with good result frm d strike and will help gej dat he his d1 dat implement upgardin in universities student and staff welfare dat ave been the problem facin d sector 4 past decades. State uni thanks for ur patronage too... So ewa ma lo fg uni tell state uni dat...
Public
Affairs
Analyst, Professor Femi Otubanjo has aligned with
the Federal Government’s resolution that there is
no reason for the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, to remain on strike.
According to him, Government has met all the
substantive issues in its recent discussions, as well as
those in the 2009 agreement, referring particularly to
the news about the N200 billion funds the government
claimed to have paid into a Central Bank account.
Otubanjo was speaking from the Abuja studio of
Channels Television while appearing as guest on the
flagship breakfast programme, ‘Sunrise Daily’.
He referred to the demands of the ASUU leadership
for a proof of the payment as a product of
bureaucratic procedure in the government but added
that the ASUU also ought to have a mechanism with
which they can confirm this payment, since the
Central Bank is a public institution that they can liaise
with through a representative.
Otubanjo, who is also a former member of the ASUU
executive, added that all other issues like the 70 years
retirement age for professors, earned allowances,
university autonomy have also been met by the
government and the controversies over confirming
payments are “petty aspects of the strike”.
“Government has been very conciliatory, government
has met its part, and ASUU knows that. Government
will not say it has paid 200billion Naira when it has
not paid. We must learn to know that government is
more serious than a social club…Let us leave these
little petty unionism matters and face the substantive
issue of the closure of universities for 5 months”
The Professor of Political Science berated the ASUU
leadership for denying students the right to be in
school and creating a backlog for those in secondary
schools who will have to “hang around for another
year wasting away.”
“Those who ought to graduate to go and do service
cannot do it, those who want to be doctors and do
internship, everything is clogged up by this strike. So
we cannot afford another day of strike based on the
triviality of we want to know, we don’t want to
know.”
Recalling his days as secretary of the union at the
University of Ibadan, Prof. Otubanjo said that the
alleged threat by the Federal Government should not
be compared to what they experienced during the
military era.
“Under Babangida, ASUU was proscribed, and
members were on their own, so they went back to
work. Abacha was not going to proscribe ASUU; he
was going to close down universities.”
He posited that if the military administrations did not
carry out any of those threats as ASUU resumed
work, “government would not wish to sack the
lecturers because it creates its own challenges and
many difficulties. You cannot replace them easily;
you cannot get a PHD overnight.”
He said “We should expect a pronouncement from the
ASUU executives that the strike has been called off.”
He concluded by reminding the ASUU that their
demands for these monies also require them as a
component of university administration to give
assurances of efficient administration of funds that go
to them.
wat on earth z asuu waiting 4 den. bt mak we no lie FG dey play 'hide n seek' game cus y Fg no tell asuu since November. d long season film z cuming to an ENDDDDDDDDD
no b small tin ooo who knws may b d strik go rich next yr march ooo abeg God helep us 4 dis... palaba.
Point of correction, FG showd the public evidence nd nt ASUU. tot ASUU demanded dat FG relate wit them directly nd nt d public. I wonder why ASUU has a prob wit FG relating with the public. Are they nt talking about the salary arrears anymore? The other conditions are nt dificult to meet. FG nd ASUU should resolve this impasse once nd for all
Hope Asuu will nt raise anoda case again? Dey sed d funds are meant 4 fed. Uni alone abi, dat means d next demand frm ASUU wil be"we wil nt resume lectures until our fellow lecturers in d states universities ar also considered" just watch out. I d prophet says so. Hahaha.
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