FG Failed to Honour Agreement with Us, ASUU Laments

The Academic Staff Union of University yesterday accused the federal government of failing to implement a six-point agreement brokered during a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on January 9.

Besides, the union asked the federal government to, as a matter of urgency, declare a five-year state of emergency in the education sector by allocating 26 per cent of its annual budget to the sector.

The union expressed the concern at separate news conferences the Coordinator of Akure Zone, Prof. Olu-Olu Olufayo and his Sokoto Zone counterpart, Jamilu Shehu respectively in Akure and Katsina yesterday.

At Akure, Olufayo noted that the current strike was not only because of non payment of members’ salary due to introduction of Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

He said the ASUU suspended its strike before the general election because the federal government promised to do certain things which the government failed to do.

He said it was disheartening that Ngige, who was the arrow head of the whole negotiation, could now turn to blame ASUU’s warning strike on non payment of February salary.

“ASUU members worked for February. Up till today, nobody had been paid. So it was wrong for Ngige to state that lecturers need not to be paid for work not done. We have worked for the month of February and deserve to be paid. It means Ngige does not know what he was saying,” 

Olufayo said.