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The Academic Staff Universities Union, ASUU, has threatened to resume its nine months old suspended strike, following the federal government’s inability to keep to the agreement upon which it suspended the strike in December 2020.
The Chairperson of ASUU, University of Uyo chapter, Dr Happiness Uduk, who disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday shortly after a sensitization/mobilization walk by members, explained that ASUU had from the onset told FG of its resolve to return to strike without notice if it (FG) reneged from the agreement, which claimed the FG did.
She lamented that the Buhari-led administration has pushed the union to the point that it has no option than to embark on an indefinite strike.
According to her, “The Federal Government under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, has now sufficiently pushed the union, once more, to the precipice of a nationwide total and indefinite strike through its failure to honour the Memorandum of Action reached with ASUU in December, 2020, upon which the union suspended conditionally its nine-month strike of March to December 2020.
“Today, well over one year later, we regret to inform the Nigerian public, through you (the press), that the government has shown no sincerity to those terms, and nothing much has changed.
“We have waited most patiently for the government for over one year, and yet, there is no concrete sign that the federal government intends to do anything to ward off the ugly situation of another avoidable strike.”
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