Strike: Senate, ASUU, FG meeting deadlocked

Mubi-students

The negotiations among the Senate, the Federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU over the ongoing industrial action embarked by universities lecturers  ended without  parties reaching any compromise.

The meeting which was at the instance of the chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, PDP Abia North, was called to pacify the striking lecturers with a bid to finding a common ground. However, a source at the meeting revealed that all efforts to push for a call off of the strike proved abortive as members of ASUU stood their grounds.

The source also said that for well over seven hours, Chukwumerije was literarily on his knees pleading with the lecturers to consider the plights of the students and call off the strike, but ASUU members refused to shift ground.

The meeting had in attendance, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, Minister of Education, Professor Ruquayyatu Rufai; Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Julius Okojie and members of the Senate Committee on Education,among others.

Read more: Vanguard Newspapers

One comment

  1. We the poor masses are suffering in the hands of the the ASUU and Federal Government. When two elephants fight, it is the only grass that suffer. We are getting old in the school for just undergraduate programme while our parents are at home awaiting our helping hands after our graduation and if by luck we are able to secure jobs. Your children are oversea schooling without all this ugly pains we are undergoing. Beware the eyez of the Lord is watching you. We are not happy with you people at all and I am very sure God also is not happy with you people because the voice of the masses is the voice of God.

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