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By Gabriel Dike, Lagos
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has converted its ongoing six-month strike to an indefinite industrial action.
The decision was taken by the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of ASUU, which ended earlier Monday morning. The implication is that public universities would remain shut.
The NEC meeting, which involved principal officers, zonal coordinators and branch chairmen, decided to declare a total, comprehensive and indefinite strike.
Earlier, ASUU branch congresses had voted for the continuation of the industrial action and the decision was taken to the NEC meeting for ratification.
ASUU had on February 14 declared a four-week strike, the union rolled it over on March 13 for eight weeks and extended it to three months on May 9.
The demands of the union include government failure to implement the Memorandum of Action signed with the union on December 23rd, 2020, and the non-signing of the 2009 renegotiated FGN/ASUU agreement submitted nine months ago.
Other reasons are forceful payment of ASUU members’ salaries and emoluments through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and non-adoption of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), which the government has used to shortage its members and non-payment of arrears of minimum wage.
