FG delaying end to strike – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday said that the Federal Government should be held responsible for the unions continuous strike.
The union said that the way the FG was handling the development represented the mockery of global standards of university education.
ASUU chairman at the University of Ibadan, Dr Deji Omole, who said this on a radio programme monitored in Ibadan, said the FG could end the strike by implementing the agreement it reached with the union. He explained that all that the union was demanding from the FG was to use public funds to develop public education in the country.
He noted that the union would not shy away from embracing purposeful dialogue with the FG over the development.
“ASUU has never run away from negotiations. The issue in connection with the strike is about implementation and not negotiation as being peddled by the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige. It was sad that successive government, including the incumbent failed to realise that funding education is an investment which can bring about enduring positive change in Nigeria.