FG  Yet To Meet Our Demands — ASUU

The  Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed disappointment at Federal Government for not “meeting” any of its demands after several months they have both resolved to  a peaceful path in resolving their age-long differences.

The president of the union, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, expressed the disappointment concerning their pending issues with the Federal Government.

According to Osodeke, government has not done anything up till now apart from the renegotiation team it constituted recently to discuss afresh with ASUU.

ASUU said it had since concluded its own part of the renegotiation assignment with the team, awaiting feedback from the government’s representatives.

According to Osodeke, ASUU has presented its positions on each of the issues in contention, leaving the rest to the government’s representatives to return to their principals and then come back to us for feedback to enable us to know where we are both standing.

“It has been about two months now, the government’s team has not come back to us, let alone sign a new deal and the implication of this development is that the political class does not care about any development for the public university,” he stressed.

“He pointed out, “No single issue has been permanently resolved by this government since assumption which is more than a year now out of all issues about our agreements.

“So, in education we can boldly say as a union that nothing has changed.

“We are still telling the same old story, whereas, the rich keep sending their children abroad to study and returning after studies to take up the so-called lucrative positions, especially in public establishments leaving the children of the poor to continue to suffer.”

Osodeke said this narrative must change if Nigeria is desirous of genuine progress as a country.