Earlyface

The National Treasurer of ASUU, Dr Ademola
Aremu while speaking with correspondents
on telephone on Sunday disclosed that the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
has insisted that its members would not
return to class until the Federal Government
responds to its letter requesting it to put its
promises to fund the universities in writing
and sign it for future reference.
He said the proper way of communication
with the union should be through a letter
confirming the signing of the new
agreement it reached with the lecturers.
Aremu said: “When we finished negotiation
with the President, we promised to go and
brief our members and communicate the
popular decision of the union to his office.
That was exactly what we did. The collective
decision of members was that the
government should put its proposal in black
and white and sign it properly.
“So, if government wants to communicate
with us, it should simply respond to the
letter, not announcing through the media
that certain amount of money was already
with the CBN. That is not proper. We don’t
believe that is a fair treatment.”
On the ultimatum, Aremu said it was a threat
that cannot intimidate any lecturer that is
worth his salt.
“Any academic that is not an intellect work,
that is actually an intellectual will not be
intimidated by the threat. Nobody can
humiliate you when you are fighting a just
cause.” He said.