FG Condemns ASUU’s Conditions For Calling Off Strike

The Federal
Government,
yesterday, condemned the new conditions which
Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, insists
must be met before it could call off its five-month-
old strike.
Members of the union had on Friday met in Kano
for the National Executive Council, NEC, which they
made as secretive as possible before
communicating their resolution to the federal
government whose response have now dashed the
hopes of university students who were expecting
the strike to be called off this week.
The three conditions the union gave the FG were
payment of four months salaries, which
accumulated during the period of the strike;
immediate implementation of the N1.2 trillion
offered by the government to public universities,
starting with the release of N100 billion this year
and the balance of N1.1 trillion to be spread over
five years from 2014.
The union also demanded that the salary arrears
must not be paid in piecemeal.
Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike,
condemned the new conditions but assured that he
would present them before President Goodluck
Jonathan.