Follow Us on Google
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has appealed to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to begin the implementation of the 2025 FG/ASUU agreement to avert industrial unrest in the three state-owned universities.
ASUU Lagos Zone made the urgent appeal during a briefing at the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) to reveal the non-implementation of the 2025 FG/ASUU agreement by the Lagos State Government.
The Lagos Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof. Adesola Nassir, said out of the seven branches in the zone, only the Lagos State Government had not implemented the agreement.
Prof. Nassir said the briefing was to address delayed implementation of the FG/ASUU 2025 agreement in the three universities owned by Lagos State Government, which are the Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) and LASUSTECH, six months after the agreement was signed.
The zonal coordinator confirmed that the union had written to the state government through the vice chancellors of LASU, LASUED and LASUSTECH without a positive response.
He said: “We are drawing the attention of the Lagos State Government to the brewing unrest in the three universities. The state government is the one fuelling the unrest.
“The state government should be held responsible for the brewing unrest in LASU, LASUED and LASUSTECH. The national body has thrown its weight behind our members in the three universities for any decision they take has our backing.
“All the state governments in the zone have started the implementation of the agreement. We don’t want LASU, LASUED and LASUSTECH to be shut down because of the non-implementation of the agreement. We care for our students but we will not compromise our members’ welfare,” Nassir stated.
He advised Governor Sanwo-Olu not to allow ASUU to storm Lagos to protect against the non-implementation of the agreement, adding, “we will mobilise our members from the seven branches and the civil society organisations. We don’t want any crisis in the state universities but if the current approach fails, we will resort to another level of agitation.”
Other News
According to him, during the renegotiation, stakeholders, including the Federal Government team comprising pro-chancellors of federal and state universities in addition to representatives of other government agencies were carried along.
He added: “By this arrangement, we believed that the implementation of the
agreement would be seamless, such that the disruption in academic calendars, occasioned by union strikes over non implementation, would be avoided.
“To our utter disappointment, the Lagos State Government appears to be playing the ostrich in this matter. Six months of interaction with some representatives of the Lagos State Government have not produced any concrete results,” he stated.
He argued that the union was committed to the welfare of its members, stressing, “we have decided to stand by our members in the state owned universities in their struggles for the implementation of the agreement.”
The coordinator added that ASUU would give full support to LASU, LASUED and LASUSTECH in whatever decision they chose to take to get the agreement implemented by the state government.
“We are thereby alerting the Lagos State Government of a brewing unrest in the state. The government, not ASUU, should be held responsible if all the universities belonging to Lagos State are thrown into avoidable crises or totally shut down on account of poor response by the Government to the concerns of our members.”
The union urged Governor Sawo-Olu, the Visitor to the universities, to crown his tenure with a crisis-free Lagos by resolving the matter and other crisis points in its universities.
