The Academic Staff Union of Universities says it may resume industrial action following the continuous refusal of the federal government to honour the agreement it signed with the union.
The ASUU Chairperson of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Dr Ibrahim Inuwa,gave the indication while speaking with some journalists at the Union’s Secretariat at the weekend
He said that the strike was suspended in December 2020, after ASUU and the federal government signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the various issues providing timelines for the implementation of each of the eight items.
“It is over seven months after the MoU was signed and the federal government only addressed two out of the eight issues.Enough is enough, ASUU is fed up with deceptive antics of the federal government of Nigeria”
“The university campuses are becoming restive across the length and breadth as academics are threatening to shut down activities once again. This is coming as a result of the failure of the federal government to implement many aspects of memorandum of Action (MoA) it willingly signed with ASUU that ended the last strike in December, 2020”
“Given the glaring and deliberate failure of Government to honour the agreement it willingly signed with the union, it is becoming obvious that industrial harmony is gradually being destroyed in the university campuses.
“We therefore call on well meaning Nigerians to wake up the Federal Government from its slumber to avoid another disruption of academic activities on Universities Campuses across the nation, the atmosphere is tenses and charged” he said
