Looming strike: We'll no longer rely on FG's lies, says ASUU

Punch

The Academic Staff Union of Universities is meeting on Saturday to, among other things, take a final decision on its proposed nationwide strike.

The union’s zonal coordinator in charge of the Sokoto zone, Jamilu Shehu disclosed in Katsina on Wednesday at a press conference.

ASUU Sokoto zone comprises five institutions, including the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Sokoto State University, Sokoto, and Federal University Dutsinma.

The ASUU scribe warned the Federal Government not to drag the nation’s educational sector to dark days of strike actions, by urgently implementing the December 23, 2020, Memorandum of Action reached with the union.

He declared, “We are, hence, calling for all the concerned parties to urgently address these issues in line with the spirit and letters of the December 2020 MoA and the intervention of the Speaker, House of Representatives, and others, or risk industrial action…