ASUU strike: Buhari regime reacts to extension, insists all demands met
The President Muhammadu Buhari regime has insisted all demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU ) have been addressed as the union extends its warning strike by eight weeks.
The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, told journalists that all earned allowances, as well as revitalisation funds, had been released.
“ASUU announced and we met and everything that they have demanded,” he said at the end of the commemoration of the 2022 Commonwealth celebration on Monday in Abuja.
Mr Nwajiuba added, “we have done all of them including the earned allowances and the revitalisation fund; they choose to extend it for two months.”
After the expiration of its initial one month strike on March 14, ASUU declared a roll-over strike for another two months.
The strike, according to the union, was due to the failure of government to implement the agreement the federal government signed with the union in 2009.
ASUU had also accused the federal government of working against the deployment of the UTAS, a payment platform designed by ASUU in lieu of the IPPIS payment system.
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