Another strike looms, ASUU Warns

 The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday, said it might be compelled to embark on another strike if the Federal Government failed to implement the December 22, 2020 Memorandum of Action signed with it prior to the suspension of the last strike.

The Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Benin, Prof. Fred Esumeh, told newsmen while speaking on ‘Another Inevitable Round of Crisis in Nigerian Universities.’

Esumeh who did not disclose when the strike would commence, said they awaited the decision of the national body to give the directive.

Recall that in March 2020, ASUU embarked on a strike action following its disagreement with the FG over the funding of the universities and ineffectiveness and discrepancies around the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System and others.

ASUU, however, developed the University Transparency and Accountability Solution to replace IPPIS and had several meetings with the Ministries of Finance, Education, Labour and Employment, and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation before it was approved but yet to be implemented.

Esumeh said: “For the records, that strike action was declared on the 23rd of March 2020 over the federal government’s failure to honour the terms of an earlier 7th February 2019 MoA in which the federal government had freely agreed to conclude the details of the renegotiation of the FGN-ASUU 2009 agreement.

“The specific issues remain that the federal government deliberate delay in deploying the University Transparency and Accountability Solution as the payment platform for university staff, the non-payment of the due tranche of Earned Academic Allowances.

“Others are the non-release of the earlier agreed N40 billion fund for the revitalisation of public universities, the unwillingness to sign the draft of the renegotiated 2009 agreement, the continued non-payment of promotion arrears, the non-payment of withheld salaries and the non-remittance of deducted check-off dues of the union.”

Likewise, in a letter dated September 9,2021 and jointly signed by the Plateau State University branch chairman of ASUU, Dr Pamson Bentse and the Secretary,Samson Bitrus specifically accused Governor Simon Lalong led administration of failing to settle the national minimum wage arrears owed the lecturers within the first quarter of 2021 as well as failing to effect immediate release of N70 million as part payment of the Earned Academic Allowance arrears for the first tranche while the second tranche of N72 million will be due in October ,among others .

They also accused the government of failing to commence the payment of mainstreamed Earned Academic Allowance from January,2021 and failing to commence the construction of staff quarters within the second quarter of 2021 as well as failing to complete the perimeter fencing of the university among other issues as contained in the Memorandum of Action.

The letter titled “Request for ASUU-PLASU branch to embark on a strike” read, “Congress reviewed the level of implementation of the March 2nd 2021 ASUU-PLASU/Plateau State Government Memorandum of Action and resolved as follows; the government has failed to deploy the services of fifteen armed Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps on resumption; government has failed to settle the national minimum wage arrears within the first quarter of 2021; failed to effect immediate release of N70 million as part payment of the Earned Academic Allowance arrears for the first tranche while the second tranche of N72 million will be due in October.”

In another development, the Sokoto Zonal Coordinator of Academic Staff Union of Universities, Jamilu Shehu, in Katsina decried deteriorating condition of many state owned universities.

He insisted that many states Governors were establishing the universities for political patronage rather than for the advancement of fields of knowledge.

The ASUU zonal chairman called on Governors to stop establishing universities for states if they knew that they could not cater for them.

Shehu made the declaration while addressing journalists on the current faceoff between the Federal Government and the ASUU.

According to him, many state-owned universities are battling with numerous challenges ranging from lack of funding, payment of salary, pension and Earned Academic Allowances, domestication of the 2003 and 2012 (Amendment Act) Universities Miscellaneous Provision, among other issues.

 

Source – Punch Newspaper

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Jide Sowore, brother of Sahara Reporters’ publisher, shot dead by killer herdsmen

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Jide Sowore, brother of Sahara Reporters’ publisher, shot dead by killer herdsmen

In 2019, Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere leader Reuben Fasoranti, was killed by suspected herdsmen along the same route where Mr Sowore was killed today.

ADEBOLA AJAYI • SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Olajide Sowore

Suspected herdsmen have killed Olajide Sowore, the younger brother of Sahara Reporters’ publisher Omoyele, the activist said in a statement.

Omoyele Sowore said his brother was killed by armed men suspected by witnesses to be herdsmen while travelling between Benin and Ondo on Saturday morning.

He was almost 50 and studying pharmacy at Igbinedion University, Mr Sowore said, decrying his brother’s loss as a huge one for his family and friends.

A spokesman for the police in Akure did not immediately return a request seeking comments from Peoples Gazette on Saturday morning.

The development came as southerners are pushing to restrict herdsmen activities across the region. On Thursday, Ondo became the latest state to adopt a law against open grazing when Governor Rotimi Akeredolu signed the state’s anti-open grazing bill into law.

The state has witnessed repeated deadly attacks linked to herdsmen. In 2019, Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere leader Reuben Fasoranti, was killed by suspected herdsmen along the same route where Mr Sowore was killed today. The police said they had made arrests in connection to Mrs Olakunrin’s death, but no suspect has been convicted to date.

Mr Sowore described his late brother as selfless and industrious, saying his demise would leave a void in the prominent Ondo family.

“You lived your life so that everyone could be alright but now assassinated by everything that’s not alright!” the publisher said.

Hold FG responsible if we embark on another strike, ASUU insists

 The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday berated the administration of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for allegedly breaching the agreement it reached with the union nine months after it suspended its strike.

The Ibadan Zone of the Union said this in a press conference held at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso addressed by the Coordinator, Prof. Oyebamiji Oyegoke.

The chairpersons of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Ayo Akinwole; UNILORIN, Professor Moyosore Ajao; LAUTECH, Dr Biodun Olaniran and KWASU, Dr Shehu Salau were also present at the briefing.

The union asked Nigerians to hold Buhari responsible should the educational system be plunged into another round of crisis based on what it described as irresponsibility on the part of the Federal Government.

For the avoidance of doubt, ASUU stated that only salary shortfall and setting up of Visitation panels to Federal Government-owned universities had been addressed by government while renegotiation of conditions of service, injection of revitalisation funds, payment of earned academic allowances, implementation of University Transparency and Accountability Solution proliferation of state universities, release of withheld salaries and non-remittance of check-off dues of unions which were all contained in the December 22, 2020, Memorandum of Action have not been addressed.

*Elaborating on each case, Oyegoke stated, “The claim by the Minister of Labour and Employment that the money allocated for Revitalisation of Public Universities had been paid as contained in the MoA of 2020 cannot be true. The same minister confirmed on August 2, 2021, that the money was still in the custody of Central Bank of Nigeria only awaiting application by the Minister of Education for eventual transfer to the NEEDS Assessment Fund Account.

“That government is working hard to facilitate the release of money by the CBN since January 2021 leaves a sour taste in the mouth.” 

*On IPPIS versus UTAS, the Ibadan Zone of ASUU explained that Withholding salaries for months, non-release of EAA, non-payment of Check-off dues accruing to the union, despite what ASUU had demonstrated can only be an invitation to another possible cycle of industrial crisis.*

ASUU said, “Moreover, UTAS avowed suitability has been demonstrated admirably to the Minister of Education and members of his team, the Honourable Senate President of Federal Republic of Nigeria, and other key stakeholders like Ministries of Labour and Employment; Education, Finance, Office of the Accountant-General, representatives of Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).

“The more the government insists on fulfilling the demands of integrity test on UTAS, the longer will be the accompanying pains earlier identified in IPPIS will stay our members.”

ASUU also slammed the blatant denials by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige over the failure of government to meet on August 2, 2021, concerning the implementation of all outstanding issues.

ASUU said, “At a reconciliation meeting between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the leadership of our Union on Monday, August 2, 2021, at the Conference room of the Minister of Labour and Employment, where all the contentious​ matters affecting the outstanding issues regarding the​implementation of the 2020 FGN/ASUU MoA were discussed, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on behalf of the FGN promised that a broader government team and the inter-ministerial committee on the draft​renegotiated 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement would conclude its work and submit the report to government by the end of August 2021. The meeting concluded with an agreement to reconvene by the end of August 2021 to ascertain the faithfulness of the FGN in resolving the outstanding issues.

“We are in the second week of September 2021, nothing positive from the FGN except blatant denials by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and the Minister of State for Labour and Employment.”

According to ASUU, rather than finding ways towards the resolution of the crises, the Federal Government has insisted on inflicting more hardship on ASUU members and by extension on all Nigerians.

The union said, “The persistent non-responsiveness of the FGN to the contentious and outstanding issues​ of the December​ 2020 FGN/ASUU MoA has created a ticking time bomb which may explode and engulf the Nigerian​ university system at a time sooner than imagined.

“When this happens, Nigerians should hold the Federal Government of Nigeria responsible.”

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