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The Federal University Wukari (FUW) branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has enjoined the national body of the union to embark on a total and comprehensive strike if the federal government fails to honour agreements reached with it by February 13, 2022.
In a resolution unanimously passed during a congress meeting held on Wednesday in Wukari, members of the branch resolved to support the national body and abide by its directives whenever the strike is declared.
In a press release issued at the end of the congress, which was signed by the Chairman and Secretary, Joseph Ikwebe and Comrade S.O. Ameh, titled ‘Federal Government Unwittingly Calling for Strike’, the branch took a swipe at the federal government for failing to honour agreements.
Berating the federal government, the branch noted that it is more than a year after ASUU patriotically suspended the nine-month strike occasioned by the failure of the federal government to implement the 2009 agreements and numbers of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) and Memoranda of Action (MoA) entered into with the union.
The union however acknowledged the recent interventions of notable stakeholders including the Nigerian Inter-religious Council (NIREC) towards having the federal government to do the needful and avert the resumption of the suspended strike…
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