The Federal Government, Thursday, ordered all Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities that are currently on strike to immediately reopen for academic and allied activities.
Supervising Minister of Education,
Barr. Nyesom Wike stated this while briefing journalists in Abuja, on the
latest on the 5 months strike.
He said it was rather unfortunate
that after a 13 hour meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja on the
4th of November, 2013, three weeks after the meeting Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU came up with new conditions for them to call off the 5
months old strike.
He said it was obvious that the new
conditions of ASUU was not in the interest of the nation.
The conditions that were given by
ASUU included, that President Jonathan should facilitate the endorsement
of resolutions reached with him and must be signed by high ranking government
official preferably the Attorney-General of the Federation but not a Permanent
Secretary.
In a related story, the ASUU has said the threat by the Federal Government to sack university lecturers would not only fail but also worsen the situation and “another long path to make the strike linger more than necessary.”
With the threat, ASUU said it was
evident now that the Federal government was not ready to implement any
resolutions it reached with the union.
“It is a pity if the federal
government is not willing to perfect the resolutions reached with union. This
is why we find it difficult to trust our leaders by their words. How can
someone be threatening to sack lecturers when universities are already
short-staffed by almost 60,000. We are not in Military era. The Military tried
it and failed. This one will fail again.” ASUU said.
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