ASUU Vows Indefinite Until FG Fulfils All Agreements

Nigerian students might have to spend more time home if the threat of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Owerri Zone, is anything to go by.

The zone has threatened a total showdown with the Federal Government over the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement.

This was disclosed by the union in a press conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, on Monday, December 13.

Punch Newspaper reports that leaders of the union from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State University, Owerri, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, were in attendance.

Speaking at the press conference, the ASUU Zonal coordinator, Mr Uzo Onyebinama, disclosed that some lecturers are being owed as much as 10 months’ salary. He said:

“As we speak now, the Federal Government is in arrears of major components of the agreement, and that includes funding for the revitalization of public universities, earned academic allowances, and the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement.

“The consequences of the federal government’s refusal to implement the 2009 agreement is that the union has resolved to go on an indefinite strike any moment and once it begins, it will not stop until all agreements are fulfilled.”