ASUU Strike: Union Threatens To Sanction Non-complying Chapters

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has queried some universities on non-compliance with its decision to remain on strike while negotiations with the federal government continues.

This follows a report that a few members of the lecturers’ union have pulled out of the ongoing industrial action to resume academic activities.

ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, is said to have made this disclosure in an interview with news men on Monday, June 13, in Abuja.

Meanwhile, ASUU had been on strike for about four months to press home its demands.

ASUU Demands

The striking lecturers’ demands include funding for the revitalisation of public universities, Earned Academic Allowances, use of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears.

Meanwhile, since the union embarked on strike, few of its members have pulled out of the ongoing strike to resume their academic activities.

Osodeke is quoted as saying “We will punish those who have pulled out from our ongoing strike the appropriate way. We will ensure to query them and we will follow it up the appropriate way. We have even queried some of them in accordance with the union.”

Speaking on the Union’s previous meeting with the Federal Government, Osodeke noted that since the last Tripartite Plus meeting called by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, on the ongoing industrial action over a month ago, there had been no other meeting while adding that nothing concrete came out of the meeting.

The ASUU chief revealed that the union would be meeting with the government within the week.

Recall that the Minister of education on behalf of the federal government had pleaded with the leadership of the ASUU to end the ongoing strike action.

Emeka Nwajiuba had said that while the government understands that the demands of ASUU are genuine, it also believes that a strike is not the best approach to resolving these issues.

According to the minister, the industrial action is affecting every citizen of the country in one way or the other including his family.