The Federal Government and the leadership
of Academic Staff Union of Universities,
ASUU, led by its President Dr. Nasir Fagge
yesterday, signed Memoradum of
Understanding (MoU) on the restructured
2009. Agreement.
ASUU President, Dr. Nasir. Fagge said the
document signed would be presented to the
union to take an affirmative stand on the
suspension of the 5 months old industrial
action.
He said with the signing of the MOU the 5-
month-old strike would be suspended in a
week’s time.
According to Fagge, “This is the response to
the letter we wrote to Mr. President and this
document would now be forwarded to our
members and our members would give us
direction. We are hoping that we would be
able to meet with our members in less than
a week.
I don’t have the power to call off the
industrial action, it is only our members that
can do that. And our members gave us a
message to give to the Federal Government
which we have done and within one week
our members would meet. We already have
the document which shows that
Government is committed”.
The ASUU President said the development
and revitalization of Nigeria’s education
sector is the work of everybody.
“It is never too late for the nation to turn a
new leaf and do what is right. Other
countries that are smaller and less powerful
than Nigeria have done it and have
succeeded. It is rather unfortunate that
Nigeria is not close to some of these smaller
nations around us. It is now, we must
properly fund our universities, we have lost
lot of capital to nations like Ghana and
Togo”, Fagge said.
He therefore assured Nigerians that ASUU
would not take long in ensuring that the
right thing is done as soon as possible.
Culled from Vanguard
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