ASUU Strike: ASUU Insists On Signed Pact With FG

ASUU Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advised those urging it to call off its four-month-old strike to prevail on the Federal Government to implement the agreement signed with the body in 2009.

The union said it would not succumb to blackmail, adding that the agreement must be implemented for the strike to be called off.

It added that the "no-work-no-pay rule" being threatened by the Federal Government would not force its members to suspend the action.

Coordinator of the body in Ilorin zone, Dr. Ayan Adeleke, yesterday condemned those advising President Goodluck Jonathan to apply the rule, describing the proposal as "barbaric , obsolete and inhuman."

"No amount of pressure would dissuade us from ensuring that the Federal Government implements the agreement reached with our union in 2009," Adeleke said in a statement.

Adeleke, who accused owners of private universities of being behind those urging the president to impose the "no-work- no- pay rule policy," said they were making such calls for selfish interests.

The chairman of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) criticized the Federal Government for resorting to blackmail to coerce ASUU to back-down on the struggle.

He said rather than resolving the issue, the threat would further aggravate the acrimony between the union and the government.

"People and organizations appealing to ASUU to call off the strike should appeal to the Federal Government to implement the agreement freely entered into in 2009. ASUU is fighting for the sustenance of Nigerian universities so that half baked graduates will not litter the labour market," he said.