This Government Is Not Ready, The Strike Continues ––ASUU

Public university lecturers under the umbrella of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, on Sunday insisted that they would not
return to the classrooms on Monday as directed by the federal
government.
They also accused the President Gooodluck Jonathan-led Government
of insincerity in its bid to resolve the 6 months old dispute. ASUU
President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, confirmed their stand to go on with the
strike...
The Federal Government had through the Executive Secretary of the
National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, deferred its
earlier ultimatum to the lecturers to resume work on Monday (today)
or risk being sacked. The shift was to enable them to participate in
the burial of Prof. Festus Iyayi, a former president of ASUU on
Saturday.
Before this, the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, had
advised the striking lecturers to return to work on or before December
4 or face dismissal.
But ASUU had in a news bulletin to its chapters after its meeting in
Ekpoma, Edo State on Sunday, said the Federal Government had not
met its conditions for suspending the over five months’ strike.
When asked by Punch if the members of the union would go back to
work today and if they had confirmed the N200bn the Federal
Government claimed to have deposited in a special account at the
Central Bank of Nigeria, Fagge simply replied, “No to both questions.”
ASUU had in the bulletin insisted that the government threat to sack
its members would not break the union’s resolve to pursue its action
to a logical conclusion.
A source privy to the meeting, said:
“No Jupiter will force us to go and teach until all the agreements are
documented. The Federal Government is not sincere. If indeed the
authorities have agreed, why will they be afraid to document what has
been agreed upon?
“Let the vice-chancellors, who can teach, go and do so. But our
members are determined not to sign any attendance register
tomorrow (today). The threat does not bother us, as truth will always
supercede deception, lies and any form of intimidation.”