We’ll No Longer Rely on Your Lies, Pledges, ASUU Tells FG

Francis Sardauna in Katsina

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it will no longer rely on what it termed lies and pledges by the federal government to implement the December 23, 2020, Memorandum of Action (MoA).

The Sokoto Zonal Coordinator of the union, Jamilu Shehu, disclosed this Wednesday at a press conference in Katsina titled: ‘Back to Trench: Causes of the Current Raw between ASUU and the Federal Government’.

Shehu said the failure of the government to implement the demands of ASUU as contained in the December 2020 MoA, would leave the union with no option than to embark on another trench of industrial crisis.

He said the federal government had refused to implement the university transparency and accountability solution (UTAS) payment and mainstreaming of earned academic allowances (EAA) and renegotiation exercise.

According to him, the government also failed to tackle the issues of funding for the revitalization of universities and inconsistencies in salary payment with IPPIS despite the agreement reached between the two parties.

He said: “In view of the foregoing, therefore, ASUU would no longer rely on lies and pledges of the implementation of the 23rd December, 2020 MoA by the government.

“We are, hence, calling for all the concerned parties to urgently address these issues in line with the spirit and letters of the December 2020 MoA and the intervention of the speaker, House of Representatives and others or risk industrial action.”

He called on the federal and state governments to accord the education sector the needed attention “because that is the only we can truly develop as a nation”.