ASUU: No Retreat, No Surrender

In anticipation of today's
meeting between the Federal
Government and ASUU
representatives, the President of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, Dr. Nasir Fagge,
has stated that the union will not back down on
the ongoing strike if a compromise is not
reached.
Dr. Fagge made this statement in a telephone
interview earlier today. He maintained that
the strike action was not embarked upon just
for the demands, but for the Federal
Government to honour a Memorandum of
Understanding which it signed in 2012 with
ASUU.
The ASUU President: "Who's talking about
demands here? We presented our demands in
2006 and it took us three years to get it into
an agreement.
"The FG signed the MOU in 2012, that's what
we are asking them to honour, period. The
strike action will not continue only if they
implement the MOU we had last year."
The ASUU President further noticed that "If
we call off the strike when the MOU has not
been implemented, of what use was the strike
action in the first place? We are holding on
until everything is sorted out."
The strike by the lecturers lasts for forty-
nine days if, ASUU does not reach an
agreement with the Federal Government at the
meeting scheduled to hold later today.