Just One Year After: Another ASUU Strike?

The Aca­demic Staff Union of Universi­ties (ASUU) may be going on
another very long strike just a year after they called off their
5-month long strike, following the Federal Government inability to
honour the agreement it reached with the lecturers during the last
strike.
Speaking yesterday at a press briefing in remembrance of the killing
of former ASUU leader, Professor Festus Iyayi by the convoy of Kogi
State Governor, Captain Idris Wada, ASUU lamented the failure of the
Federal Government to fulfill its promises.
The union disclosed that no government-owned university had received a
dime from the N200 billion the government said it had set aside for
the revitalization of university education in the current year.
Chairman, Nnamdi Azikiwe University branch of ASUU, Comrade Dennis
Aribidor said: "It seems Iyayi's death opened the pandora box that
suggests that ASUU's relationship with government might seem
irreconcilably hostile. While he fought for a just cause, ASUU is
presently skeptical that he died in vain especially since the
conten­tion over honouring the ASUU-FG 2009 agreement, which cut his
life short, is still far-fetched. This position is based on some hard
truths."
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