ASUU may strike again as disagreement ensues with FG over payment platform

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Chairmen of ASUU branches nationwide have expressed readiness to commence a fresh strike over the non-implementation of their agreement with FG on IPPIS. Delegations from the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities are expected to meet on Monday in a bid to prevent a fresh strike.



The Chairman, ASUU, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Dr Ibrahim Inuwa, said the protracted strike, was suspended in December after the two parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the various issues and providing timelines for the implementation of each of the eight items in the agreement.


However, seven months after the MoU was signed only two out of the eight issues have been addressed. Hence, the impending threat of a new strike. 


Dr Inuwa also listed some of the outstanding issues to include: payment of the earned academic allowance, funding for revitalisation of public universities, salary shortfall, proliferation of state universities and setting up of visitation panels.


Others are renegotiation, replacement of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System with the University Transparency and Accountability Solution and withheld salaries and non-remittance of check-off dues.


A statement by Mr. Charles Akpan, the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations at the Ministry of Labour and Employment, said the minister, Senator Chris Ngige, will be hosting the leadership of the ASUU to a meeting at the ministry’s conference room, federal Secretariat in Abuja.


The National President, ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, also spoke, clearly stating his discontentment towards the actions of the FG. He said that the union was invited by the Ministry of Labour to discuss issues surrounding the Memorandum of Action, which was signed with the Federal Government in December 2020.


However, Osodeke, explained the last time the union met with the government was around March/April.


He said, “The Ministry of Education, which is our ministry, has not called us to any meeting since we signed the Memorandum of Action but the Ministry of Labour, which is just an intervention ministry, around March/April called us to a meeting in which we discussed and they promised to implement all those things.”




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