ASUU extends strike by 8 weeks to give FG more time to honour agreement

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced the extension of its 4 weeks strike by eight weeks on Monday.

The Union gave the reason for the strike extension as the Federal Government’s failure to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week warning strike.

President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke, noted in a statement that the National Executive Council had concluded during their meeting on Sunday to give the FG eight weeks to address all the issues “in concrete terms” so that students can resume quickly.

The statement partly read, “NEC acknowledged the intervention efforts, in various ways, by patriots and friends of genuine national development (students, parents, journalists, trade union leaders, civil society activists etc.) to expeditiously resolve the crisis which the government’s disposition had allowed to fester.

“However, ASUU, as a union of intellectuals, has historic obligations to make governments honour agreements.

“NEC, having taken reports on the engagements of the Trustees and Principal Officers with the Government, concluded that Government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks to give Government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible.

“The roll-over strike shall commence by 12.00 am on Monday, 14th March 2022.”