ASUU Denies Threatening To Embark On Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has denied threatening to embark on strike on October 2nd, 2016.
The Chairman of the University of Abuja chapter of ASUU, Ben Ugheoke, in an interview, stated that he never announced that ASUU will embark on a strike action as reported by the media.
The media had reported that the chairman, on August 22nd, said that the union will on October 2nd, embark on a one week warning strike to press home their demands fro the full implementation of the 2009 agreements they had with the Federal government.
But Ugheoke, while refuting the claims, added that he hopes the publishers of the said report will release a rebuttal to the false report soon.
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He said,” A certain reporter in NAN is responsible for this damage. As a result of this falsified report, I am facing a panel later tonight from ASUU National body. I have reached out to the NAN reporter and he told me it was a mix-up. He also begged me to save his job. We have never given a date for any form of strike, whether warning strike or full blown strike. There was nothing like a date fixed for a strike”.
