The
end to the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU, is not in sight as the union’s President, Dr. Isa
Fagge, has said that students don’t want lecturers to end the strike.
Fagge said the students had instead urged them to continue with the
industrial actions since the Federal Government did not want to
implement the agreement it had with union since 2009.
The union leader who stated this in an interview with Punch said they
had decided to heed the advice of the students to continue the strike
until the Federal Government is ready to shift ground.
“Our students have come out to say they don’t want us to call off the
strike until the Federal Government answers us, because they don’t want
us to call off now and later we go back to strike again. So, we are
heeding the advice of our students.
“There are issues and agreement they can implement without money. Why don’t they begin with those ones?” He asked.
Fagge added that it was unfortunate that the government had decided to
pull out of the negotiations with ASUU, stressing that the union would
not be intimidated.
He said, “Now, government has pulled out of the dialogue. We thought we
were the ones going on strike, but now government has also gone on
strike”.
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