ASUU: Strike To Continue In spite Of Monday Ultimatum

It was dubious on Saturday whether the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities would cancel its five-month-old strike, regardless of the Federal Government's Monday final proposal.

There were theories that the college speakers would suspend the strike after the entombment function for an ex-ASUU President, Prof. Festus Iyayi, who was slaughtered in a mischance including the Kogi State senator's guard.

The Chairman, ASUU, University of Benin, Dr. Tony Monye-Emina said, "The strike has not been canceled.

The power (of the establishment) is succeeding government's mandate; we are not moving our stand. It is not a neighborhood strike. "It is not genuine we are canceling the strike. By what method would we be able to be holding a gathering today? The entombment is going on and it proceeds tomorrow (today)."

Likewise, ASUU in Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, promised not to comply with government's request that instructors ought to profit to classroom for Monday.

The Chairman, ASUU, OOU part, Dr. Nasir Adesola said the teachers would not succumb to dangers by government to sack them. Adesola, who is likewise the South-West Coordinator, ASUU, focused on that since the instructors did not go on strike in the first case due to government, they would not come back to work by pressure from government.

He expressed that the instructors would just about-face to the classroom when the administration had taken care of their requests.

"We didn't go on strike due to government request. The explanations behind which we set out on the strike have not been released by the legislature. Those requests of government are simply some piece of official neglectfulness. We are not coming back to chip away at Monday," Adesola said.

Also, the ASUU Chairman in Enugu State University of Technology, Prof. Chatter Agu, said teachers would not continue on Monday.

He said it was talk that the union would call of the strike. He expressed that the National Executive Council of ASUU would meet and concur before the strike could be canceled.

Same with ASUU in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where the Chairman, Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, said just the ASUU NEC could advertise the suspension of the strike.

The Governing Council of the University of Ibadan had on Friday, in light of the mandates of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities and the National Universities Commission, said the foundation would be re-opened on January 4, 2014.

In the authority release of the college, which was marked by its Registrar and Secretary to the Council, Mr. Olujimi Olukoya, the chamber clarified that the re-opening got essential in perspective of the thought of all matters identifying with the on-going ASUU strike, at its late gathering.

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