“Our next strike won’t end until all agreements are fulfilled” – ASUU warns
ASUU Owerri Zone, has warned that the next strike by lecturers in the country will be indefinite and won’t end until all agreements it has with the federal government are fulfilled.
The academic staff union has been at loggerheads with the federal government over non-implementation of the 2009 agreement.
Addressing a press conference in Anambra which was attended by ASUU leaders from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State University, Owerri, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, the union said the magnanimity of ASUU that resulted in various MOUs and MOAs arising from the 2009 agreement has been spurned by the Federal Government.
ASUU Zonal Coordinator, Mr Uzo Onyebinama who also disclosed that some lecturers are being owed as much as 10 months’ salary, stated that the “consequences of the Federal Government’s refusal to implement the 2009 agreement is that the union has resolved to go on an indefinite strike.”
Onyebinama said; “As we speak now, the Federal Government is in arrears of major components of the agreement, and that includes funding for the revitalization of public universities, earned academic allowances, and the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement.
“The consequences of the Federal Government’s refusal to implement the 2009 agreement is that the union has resolved to go on an indefinite strike any moment and once it begins, it will not stop until all agreements are fulfilled.”