The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has claimed that the Federal Government is slacking in fulfilling its agreements with the union, News About Nigeria reports.
The President of the Union, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this while speaking to newsmen on Monday.
He noted that none of the agreements reached with the federal government in their various meetings have been met.
Recall that ASUU had threatened to embark on a strike over the non-implementation of agreements reached with the federal government.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman on June 26, invited the union to a meeting to deliberate on the lingering issues affecting universities and to avert the planned strike.
Osodeke, however, stated that some of the demands included the non-implementation of the 2009 re-negotiated agreements, adding that the agreements have lingered for over six years and the government has yet to implement them.
He also stated that the academic allowances due to their members have also accumulated for over six years, and nothing had been done about it.
He disclosed that the government was yet to stop the proliferation of universities, adding that many new universities were being approved without funds to run them, adding that the government was also yet to exit the university salary payment from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), as approved by the Federal Executive Council in January.
He further lamented that their members were still being paid by IPPIS, against the directive by the FEC.
“At the meeting called by the Minister of Education, we agreed that after two weeks, we would meet to see the progress the government has made.
“We will also see what we will do next if government fails to implement the agreements reached.
“The meeting in the next two weeks is to see what they have done, which will inform our decision.
“On the issue of revitalisation fund, we agreed on the NEEDs Assessment Report to raise N200 billion yearly, for five years.
“Since 2013, only one has been paid. We need revitalisation fund to upgrade our universities to standard so that we can be having students and lecturers from outside the country,” he stated.
