We won't stop strike ASUU says

Striking university teachers on Wednesday
insisted that they would not return to the
classrooms until the Federal Government
honoured fully the 2009 agreement and
Memorandum of Understanding signed by
the two parties.

This came as there were conflicting reports
from the University of Jos over the
institution post-Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination.

While the striking teachers insisted on
Wednesday that the exercise would not
hold, the school authorities said the
screening was in progress.
University teachers under the auspices of
the Academic Staff Union of Universities
embarked on a nationwide industrial
action on July 1, 2013.

However, the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of
ASUU, Dr. Adesola Nassir, during a briefing
at the University of Lagos, on Wednesday
insisted that the strike would not end until
the Federal Government respected the
signed pact.

The zone has members drawn from
UNILAG, University of Ibadan, Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State;
Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye,
Ogun State; Lagos State University, Ojo; Tai
Solarin University of Education, Ijagu, Ogun
State and the Federal University of
Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
Nassir explained that though the union met
with
the government's representatives,
including the members of the Senate
Committee on Education last Monday, the
meeting ended in a deadlock.
He said, "This is because the Federal
Government is still not being sincere to
address the issues at stake.

"The strike will remain for as long as it
takes the Federal Government to be faithful
to the implementation of the 2009
agreement and its renegotiation as
contained in the Memorandum of
Understanding reached by both parties in
January last year."
He explained that the FG's response to the
action since it started had shown that it
was not ready to address the challenges
facing the nation's university system.
Meanwhile, the ASUU UNIJOS chairman, Dr.
David Jangkam, has urged parents not to
send their children to the school for the
post-UTME.

He said, "No parent should send their
children to UNIJOS because the ongoing
strike is total, comprehensive and
indefinite and so no academic activities in
whatever form is supposed to take place."
However, the university said the screening
was in progress.
Speaking with journalists on Wednesday,
its Registrar, Mr. Jilli Dandam, called on the
public and participating candidates to
disregard any contrary announcement
from the striking teachers.

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