TVC E. The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday 31st of August, threatened that Nigerian educational system would once again have complications as they plan to shut down the nation’s universities through a nationwide strike, if the Federal Government fails to implement the 2009 agreement it reached with the union.
Zonal Coordinator, Abuja Zone of the union, Dr Theophilus Lagi, in a briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, stated that the Federal Government has failed to implement the 2009 agreement it reached with the union.
Dr. Lagi said that the government had only implemented 30 per cent of the provisions on the NEEDS Assessment budget in 2013.
The funds, he said, was disbursed indiscriminately to university councils, as a fall out of the six months industrial action it had embarked upon in 2009.
He therefore called on the Federal Government to fully implement the 2009 agreement it reached with the union in order to prevent the nation’s universities from going on strike.
Lagi said: “The struggle to implement the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement is not about the union. It is not about the personal benefits of the members only. It is about saving the university system from total collapse.
The current issues in contention includes funding of universities for revitalization in line with the MOU,FGN entered into with ASUU in 2013, re negotiation of the FGN/ASUU 2009 agreement which ASUU believes will reposition the entire education sector, facilitation of the registration of the Nigerian Universities Pension Management company, NUPEMCO, among others in the list.”
“Initially, ASUU was told to commit N600 million to the registration; from that N600 million, it was increased to N740m but late last year, it was raised to N1 billion and I want to say that ASUU has already paid the N1 billion.
It has been with the government since 2013 and yet government is frustrating the registration of the company.”
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