ASUU Strike: ‘No Work No Pay’ Threat Not Enough To End Strike

Written By Blogger on Senin, 22 Juli 2013 | 09.17

As the ongoing national strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters the third week, the union has said that the threat of no-work-no-pay by the government would not make it suspend the action.

Rather, the union, which described the Federal Government as 'slave trader', said it had resolved not to go back to the classroom until after the full implementation of the agreement as signed with the union in 2009.

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It said, "After about 300 years of slave trade, the FG's attempt to make this era of a second or third slavery will not be allowed. Our students have said to us 'do not come back without achieving results from your strike'.

The national convener, ASUU Committee on Human Rights, Sola Olorunyomi, stated this in Ibadan at the weekend with a vow that the union would deliver Nigerian education from the enslavement of the political class.

Olorunyomi, who is also a member of University of Ibadan Strike Information Sub-committee, lamented that the Federal Government's body language showed insincerity, recalling that the leadership of ASUU, which met with representatives of the Federal Government were shocked when the government side feigned ignorance of the strike and any agreement until they were showed their signatures on the document.

"We are resolute this time. We are prepared to go hungry. You can't believe that the people we met first feigned ignorance of the agreement not until our team brought out the memorandum of agreement and some of them saw their signatures. It was a drama of sorts but you can only have that in Nigeria", he said.

He maintained that both the Federal Government and the political class had conspired to under-develop Nigeria by not funding education, but vowed to forge ahead with the strike until the agreement was fully implemented and the enslavement of education stopped.

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