The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that its ongoing warning strike will continue for eight more weeks over the Federal Government’s inability to meet its demands.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had on Monday last week inaugurated a seven-man committee to renegotiate the 2009 agreement between the FG and ASUU and report back in six weeks.
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ASUU embarked on a month-long warning strike accusing the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the agreement reached with the union on the improvement of education in the country.
An official of ASUU, Professor Abdulkadir Muhammad Danbazau, said they resolved to continue the strike to give the Federal Government a chance to resolve the issues without wmbarking on a fresh strike.
He said eight weeks are enough for the government to take the right decision if it is sincere.
Meanwhile, the Federal Ministry of Education has said it will not enter into agreements with ASUU under duress.
The ministry’s spokesman, Ben Goong, in an interview with The PUNCH, called on ASUU to call off its strike “so that we will not have gunpoint negotiations and make promises that we will not be able to fulfil.”
