Again ASUU rejects Presidency offer, says strike continues

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) again
rejected the offer by the Presidency put forward by the
Viice President Namadi Sambo yesterday at a meeting
to resolve the almost three-month-old strike by the
lecturers.
Also, ASUU Ibadan zone made up of University of Ibadan,
University of Lagos, Olabisi Onananjo University,
University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Lagos State
University and Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-
Ode, at a zonal meeting yesterday, resolved to continue with
the industrial action.
The acting Zonal Coordinator, Ibadan Zone, Dr. Karo
Ogbinaka said the strike entered its 88th day (yesterday),
saying the action has crippled public universities.
He said in spite of the spirited efforts of the union to
revamp the rot in the system, the government remained
adamant and intransigent in honouring the agreement it
entered into with ASUU in 2009.
"ASUU has demonstrated great commitment and patriotism
since 2006 when the negotiation started and culminated in
the 2009 agreement. It has allowed government to use its
agencies to verify the claims of decrepit infrastructure in the
university system. This resulted in the production of the
Needs Assessment document of 2012," Ogbinaka stated.
According to him, the meeting of Tuesday, September 19
with the vice president was an indication that the Federal
Government was merely paying lip service to education in
the country and deceiving the public on its commitment to
its transformation agenda.
Ogbinaka, who is the branch chairman of ASUU UNILAG,
assured Nigerians that it would not back-out in the struggle
for the emancipation of the people by ensuring that
government does what is right in the education sector.
"Our appeal to all patriotic Nigerians is for them to support
ASUU in this struggle to save our public education in
Nigeria and secure the future of this great country," he said.
During the Ibadan zone meeting which took place at
UNILAG, ASUU members resolved to continue with the
almost three-month-old industrial action until government
meets the demands of the union.
Some of the branch chairmen at the meeting told Daily Sun
that their various congresses, which held this week rejected
offer put forward by the vice president, insisting on full
implementation of the agreement.
Acting ASUU Chairman of OOU, Dr. Tunde Odulanmi,
ASUU UI branch Secretary, Dr. Deji Omole, told Daily
Sun that their congresses rejected the outcome of the
union's meeting with Sambo and voted to continue with the
strike.

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