BRANCHES OF ASUU MEET TO DISCUSS THE OUTCOME OF THEIR MEETING WIT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
Nigeria public
universities were closed down several months ago because of the Federal
Government’s failure to implement the agreement
it entered into in 2010 with lecturers.
There have been many
calls to the Federal Government and ASUU to come to a compromise so that
students resume academic activities.
Both warring factions
had maintained hardstand on the issue as ASUU argued that poor funding was
responsible for the dwindling fortunes of education and its attendant poor
quality of graduates, while the Federal Government said the university
lecturers downed tools over enhanced earned allowance.
The leading members of
the Senate and President Jonathan had separate meetings with the union and relevant
stakeholders last Monday, in the course of which new offers were made to the
teachers with a plea for them to re-open universities.
A branch Chairman of
ASUU stated that the outcome of today’s meeting of the various branches would
be announced to the national leadership of the union, which will in turn
convene an emergency NEC meeting between Wednesday and Thursday this week to
consider the positions of various branches.
The Chairman, who did
not want his name to be mentioned, said:
“It is at the meeting that the various branches will take position
and communicate same to the national leadership Monday evening, then an
emergency NEC meeting would be convened between Wednesday and Thursday.
“We have not been told of the venue, but we were told to prepare
because it would take two days by road from my branch.”
According to his words,
calling for a strike or calling it off is not the decision to be taken by the
ASUU President (Dr. Nasir Fagge) or the national executive alone.
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