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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is expected to meet today, for proper deliberations on the ongoing warning strike embarked upon a month ago.
The National Executive meeting of ASUU is billed to hold in Abuja to review the ongoing strike and deliberate on whether to extend it or not.
Addressing pressmen one of the NEC members said that they would be meeting to discuss pressing matters with the strike being their priority.
“Yes, we are meeting today on the ongoing strike and other matters,” he said.
When asked if the strike would be called off at the end of the meeting, he replied, “Not likely. There is no positive development that I know of.”
ASUU president, Prof.Emmanuel Osodeke also confirmed the meeting without giving out detailed information.
The meeting is coming up one day to the expiration of the warning strike by ASUU.
The union had on Monday, February 14, 2022, declared a total and comprehensive four-week warning strike.
The strike, according to the union, was due to the failure of the 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.
When the Prof. Osodeke was asked if any progress was being made, he answered in disapproval saying nothing tangible has been reached by they and government.
“Nothing tangible has been done so far. We have met with the Minister of Labour twice.
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“We gave a room for them (NIREC) to intervene and they did. What we see is a lack of will and lack of interest in the public university system.
“The strike didn’t need to last more than one week if the government had taken it seriously. When they had a problem in Ukraine where the sons of the rich were studying, we saw how fast they released money, but in the country where the children of the poor are studying, nothing has been done.”
ASUU and the government have been at loggerheads over using UTAS as payment system, government claims it has failed the required test and last credibility.