The Chairman of the Universities Needs
Implementation Committee and Benue State
Governor, Gabriel Suswam on Tuesday
maintained that the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) should call off its strike
base on the N130 billion government's offer.
Speaking with State House correspondents in
Abuja, he said the Federal Government has
decided to inject N100 billion into the
infrastructures of 61 universities in the
country and N30 billion for staff allowances.
ASUU had asked for N87 billion for the
cumulated earned allowances of staff based on
the agreements reached with the Federal
Government in 2009.
For shifting ground from no money to agreeing
to assist the Governing Councils of universities
with the N30 billion for the earned allowances,
Suswam said that ASUU should reconsider its
stance.
According to him, the federal government will
meet the universities' councils and vice
chancellors this week to update them on the
decisions taken so far and to certify those
that are really entitled to the N30 billion to be
released for the earned allowances.
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