ASUU Begins Indefinite Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Monday, commenced a nationwide industrial action.

The strike action follows the federal government’s alleged inability to fully implement all outstanding issues as contained in the 2017 Memorandum of Action.

Speaking after ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting which held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State on Sunday night, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in a statement said the strike would be “total, comprehensive and indefinite.”

He said, “Having waited patiently for action and meaningful negotiation with reasonable men using the principle of collective bargaining that ASUU at its NEC meeting of 3rd and 4th November 2018 at the FUTA, resolved to resume the nationwide strike action it suspended in September 2017 with immediate effect.

“This strike will be total, comprehensive and indefinite. Our members shall withdraw their services until government fully implements all outstanding issues as contained in the MOA of 2017, and concludes the renegotiation of the 2009 agreements.

“We have today (Sunday) been subjected to 20 years of continued re-colonisation under alleged democracy in which all the ruling class have been regrouping among themselves in their various factions they called political parties.”