ASUU on Monday ended its NEC meeting and has kept mum on Action.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, On Monday, ended its National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting and is yet to release a statement on its next action regarding the half-salary payment made to lecturers by the federal government.
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Newsonline reports that the Union concluded with a resolution not to embark on another strike action following the payment of half salaries to members by the federal government.
The union resolved to wait for the outcome of the intervention of the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila in its faceoff with the government over alleged non-implementation of the 2009 agreement by the latter, a source disclosed to Vanguard.
Although no member of the body including the president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, who attended the meeting held at the University of Abuja campus where ASUU’s headquarters is located, has spoken about the outcome, a source said members resolved not to explore the strike option in getting the government address the contending issues.
It was gathered that some members had pushed for the declaration of a total and comprehensive strike across public universities across the country but the majority kicked against the action, saying it was no longer fashionable under the present circumstance.
Those against the strike argued that it would be wrong to embark on the action again, thus compelling students who have already returned to their various schools following an earlier suspension of the action to return home.
The statement released by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to the effect that government would not pay members full salaries as they were being expected, was said to have further deflated the argument by those who had pushed for a strike as the last option
Some members had suggested that since the suspension of the strike was at the speaker’s instance following his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, it would be wrong to resume action when he (the speaker) was still pushing to have the federal government rescind its decisions on no-work,no-pay policy.
A source from the meeting said, “embarking on another round of strike was not considered an option in resolving the current issues with the federal government at the meeting, “refusing to speak further.
Asked what really transpired at the meeting, he said,” You would hear the rest through the appropriate channel.”
