ASUU strike: Stop misleading Nigerians – Union tells Suswam Committee
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused Benue State Governor and chairman, Implementation Committee of Public Universities Needs Assessment Report, Gabriel Suswam of deceiving and misleading Nigerians.
The Union said Suswam was politicising the ongoing strike by ASUU in order to mislead Nigerians, with a view to making political gains out of the impasse.
ASSU stated this in a communiqué signed by the Bauchi zonal coordinator of the Union, Dr. Usman M. Abubakar, after a crucial meeting in Yola.
It said the Suswam committee had no business negotiating with the striking lecturers because it was only set up as an ‘implementation committee’, with a mandate to implement the recommendations of the technical committee on needs assessment of public universities, and as approved by the Federal Executive Council and the National Economic Council.
“The fact that the governor kept aside those recommendations and came up with his own selected recommendations clearly indicates the interest to mislead, deceive or do mischief”, the statement noted, adding that in its aim to subvert the initial agreement reached between ASUU and the federal government, Governor Suswam picked up only four items out of the total number of agreements reached for implementation.
“Suswam picked only four items: hostels, empty laboratories, lecture halls and empty libraries for construction, with no roadmap nor commitment for executing the other requirements, which is against even the technical committee’s recommendation which serialized the requirements of each university in a prioritized manner.
“We view this as a fire-brigade attempt to break the strike and not to solve the universities’ problems of rot and decay which we are on strike for.”
The Union said Suswam was politicising the ongoing strike by ASUU in order to mislead Nigerians, with a view to making political gains out of the impasse.
ASSU stated this in a communiqué signed by the Bauchi zonal coordinator of the Union, Dr. Usman M. Abubakar, after a crucial meeting in Yola.
It said the Suswam committee had no business negotiating with the striking lecturers because it was only set up as an ‘implementation committee’, with a mandate to implement the recommendations of the technical committee on needs assessment of public universities, and as approved by the Federal Executive Council and the National Economic Council.
“The fact that the governor kept aside those recommendations and came up with his own selected recommendations clearly indicates the interest to mislead, deceive or do mischief”, the statement noted, adding that in its aim to subvert the initial agreement reached between ASUU and the federal government, Governor Suswam picked up only four items out of the total number of agreements reached for implementation.
“Suswam picked only four items: hostels, empty laboratories, lecture halls and empty libraries for construction, with no roadmap nor commitment for executing the other requirements, which is against even the technical committee’s recommendation which serialized the requirements of each university in a prioritized manner.
“We view this as a fire-brigade attempt to break the strike and not to solve the universities’ problems of rot and decay which we are on strike for.”
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