ASUU strike: “University students have advised us to continue” – Fagge

The end to the industrial action embarked
upon by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, is not in sight as the
union’s President, Dr. Isa Fagge, has said that
students don’t want lecturers to end the strike.
Fagge said the students had instead urged them
to continue with the industrial actions since
the Federal Government did not want to
implement the agreement it had with union
since 2009.
The union leader who stated this in an
interview with Punch said they had decided to
heed the advice of the students to continue
the strike until the Federal Government is
ready to shift ground.
“Our students have come out
to say they don’t want us to
call off the strike until the Federal Government
answers us, because they don’t want us to call
off now and later we go back to strike again.
So, we are heeding the advice of our students.
“There are issues and agreement they can
implement without money. Why don’t they
begin with those ones?” He asked.
Fagge added that it was unfortunate that the
government had decided to pull out of the
negotiations with ASUU, stressing that the
union would not be intimidated.
He said, “Now, government has pulled out of
the dialogue. We thought we were the ones
going on strike, but now government has also
gone on strike”.
Source: dailypost