The ASUU strike continues in 2013, but the latest update is that the union says the strike can end at any time within 24 hours–if the federal government relents and agrees to the union’s three demands.
The union presented the demands to the government on Tuesday in the form of a letter to Minister of Education Nyesom Wike.
Wike called the demands “outrageous,” and alluded to them being beyond what the two sides had agreed to in the intense meeting held about two weeks ago.
Now the ASUU responds, saying that Wike’s comments about the demands being beyond the agreement “untrue” and “an absolute lie,” reported the Daily Post.
“We are not making fresh demands,” said Dr. Ademola Aremu, treasurer of the union, reported the Daily Times. ”In fact, the National Executive Council of the union would have suspended the strike but the concern of our congresses is that many of the things agreed with the President, during the November 4 meeting, were not included in the letter signed by a permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Mark Nwobiala.”
ASUU claims that it only wants the resolutions reached at the meeting endorsed and signed by a reputable government official.
Aremu did praise the intervention of Jonathan but said some of the resolutions reached were not contained in the letter sent to the union.
The conditions outlined by the union are:
1. Commitment from the President that any review or reconsideration or renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement will not substantially affect the pact which is the cause of the ongoing strike;
2. Immediate payment of all outstanding salary arrears and allowances of varsity teachers without victimization; and
3. A written commitment from the President that the Federal Government will commit N225billion annually to the funding of universities for the next four years.
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