Thursday 28 November 2013

Federal Government Orders Immediate Re-opening Of Universities

asuu strike 

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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