The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has voted to embark on a warning strike to press home its demands from the government.
The strike was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday, 14 February.
He said the strike, which takes effect from Monday, February 14, 2022, would last for an initial period of four weeks, Punch reports.
According to him, the union tried to avoid the strike but the Federal Government is unresponsive to the union’s demands.
“We don’t like to see our students at home. We don’t want our academic calendars disrupted but our demands are not met,” he added.
The ASUU chairman also said ASUU NEC faulted the creation of new universities.
Members of the union’s National Executive Council had held marathon meetings since Saturday at the University of Lagos.
ASUU had sensitized and mobilized lecturers and students across all universities on the reason the union might likely go on strike.
Recall that the union has been agitating for a number of demands including the payment of Earned Academic Allowance, revitalization fund, the replacement of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, with the University Transparency and Accountability System UTAS, among others.
The union had expressed grievances over the failure of the Federal Government to fulfill some of the agreements it made as far back as 2009. ASUU had on November 15, 2021, given the federal government a three-week ultimatum over the failure to meet the demands.
The lecturers threatened to embark on another round of industrial action following the alleged “government’s unfaithfulness” in the implementation of the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union, leading to the suspension of the 2020 strike action.
