By Kachi Ekile
The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke has stated that the union will decide their next action in two weeks if the federal government fails to implement agreements reached.
Amid the planned protests by the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Osodeke while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday disclosed that the union will see any progress made by the government at the aforementioned time.
“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 the 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,” he stated.
Osodeke also said that the federal government was yet to implement the 2009 re-negotiated agreements, adding that it is one of the union’s demands.
“Since 2013, only one has been paid. We need revitalisation funds to upgrade our universities to standard so that we can be having students and lecturers from outside the country,” Osodeke added.
