ASSU Vows to stay up to 10years if needs are not meet.

Just for tabs o.. Nothing serious,If ASUU really decides to extend the strike up to 10years,what is your plan?? As for me, I go just join Boko Haram bombing things. CLICK LINK FOR MORE.

 

 

Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Benin Zone, yesterday, expressed the resolve of members to stay at home for up to 10 years than call off the current strike action embarked upon by the union five weeks ago, if the Federal Government continues to shy away from the agreement it reached with the union in 2009. President Goodluck Jonathan had Tuesday, approved the implementation of the recommendation of the government committee on repositioning of federal and state universities. But the Benin Zone of ASUU described as a shame, government's refusal to meet its end of the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, entered with ASUU in 2009, wherein government promised to release N100 billion immediately out of the N500billion it agreed to pay. The Zonal Coordinator, Benin zone of ASUU, Dr. Ighalo Sunny, said yesterday, that part of the MOU signed in 2012 between the Federal Government and the union was that government will increase the yearly budgetary allocation to theeducational sector to 26 per cent among others. He said: "It is sad that government has failed to fulfill the agreement on the universities. The N500billion is not to pay lecturers but to fund infrastructural decay in Nigerian universities. What that means is that government has not shown readiness to implement same. For us, the solution is simple, honour and implement fully the2009 FGN/ASUU agreement. We believe that the 2009 agreement is the antidote to the debilitatingcrisis bedevilling Nigerian universities." Describing the rumour that ASUU will soon call-off the strike as a folktale, he noted that the union appreciates the interest shown by stakeholders and groups in the crisis, " but that will not stop usfrom finding lasting solution to the decay in our education sector. So, even if it takes us another 10 years, we will remain at home until the right thing is done." No re-negotiating 2009 agreement THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday rejected the Federal Government's new offer of enhanced academic allowances, insisting that government should first implement in full the2009 agreement before any other negotiation could take place. National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, who disclosed this to Vanguard, said after consultations with branch chairmen of the union on the new government offer, members rejected it, saying accepting the offer meant starting negotiations afresh. Dr. Fagge said: "They wanted to make an offer on one of the issues in dispute. They said they are more interested in the earned academic allowances, so they said they want to make an offer just like they did in the first instance. "We told them that the issue is not making offers on any item in the agreement. The issue is implementing the agreement. We have consulted our principal (branch chairmen) and our principal is of the opinion that the agreement should just be implemented. "If we say we are going to start talking about offers and rejections and acceptance, it means that we are going back to re-negotiation. "That is the situation and of course, they asked whether we will still attend tomorrow's meeting where they will discuss implementation of the needs assessment report, we told them that we will be there." The ASUU boss, who said it seemed the Federal Government wanted to reduce the whole agreement to earned academic allowances, said"for us, the agreement has many other things thatare very vital for revitalizing university system in this country." He said the branch chairmen who were contactedon the development rejected any move that would end up in government abandoning an agreement that was willingly signed and that the union did not want a development where a component of the agreement would be singled out by government. "They said (branch leaders) that are not interested in re-negotiating the agreement for now, when you implement the agreement then we will talk about re-negotiation," he said. …asks NUC to account for N100bn varsities' stabilization fund AWKA—THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to prevail on the executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Julius Okogie to account for the N100 billion annual stabilization fund provided by the Federal Government for improvement of facilities in government-owned universities. Chairman of Nsukka Zone of ASUU, Dr. Chidi Osuagwu, at a briefing on the on-going strike embarked upon by university lecturers in the country at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, accused the NUC boss of being a cog in the wheelof university education and development in Nigeria, adding that the strike would not have become necessary if the annual stabilization fund was properly managed. He said: "We have not seen anything done with the stabilization fund. If the NUC has been spending the money as expected, there would nothave been this strike in the first place as the issues demanded by ASUU would have been taken care of. "The EFCC and other agencies of government should investigate this matter in the interest o