ASUU declares four-week nationwide strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a nationwide and “comprehensive warning strike.”
Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU president, declared the strike at a press conference on Monday.
Mr Osodeke said the strike would begin on February 15 and will last four weeks, after which the union will go on indefinite if its demands are not met.
According to him, the strike was preventable, and the union tried its best to avoid it, but President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime was unresponsive to their demand.
“We don’t like to see our students at home. We don’t want our academic calendars disrupted, but our demands are not met,” he added.
The union had expressed grievances over Mr Buhari regime’s failure to fulfil some of the agreements it made as far back as 2009. The union threatened to embark on an indefinite strike following the government’s indifference.
The union’s national executive council had held marathon meetings since Saturday at the University of Lagos titled, ‘NEC for NEC’.
According to a statement from ASUU’s Twitter page, there will be no retreat until their demands are met.
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