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By Bayo Wahab
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Federal Government of being excessively dilatory successful responding to its long-standing demands, adjacent arsenic the union’s 14-day ultimatum to avert a nationwide informing onslaught expires connected Sunday.
President Bola Tinubu has reportedly directed that each indispensable steps beryllium taken to forestall different disruption successful the nation’s tertiary institutions arsenic ASUU’s ultimatum draws to a close.
But ASUU President, Chris Piwuna, during an interrogation connected Channels Television’s Morning Brief, connected Thursday, maintained that the government’s last-minute entreaty to halt the planned enactment came “a small excessively late.”
“The occupation we person with this authorities and the enactment successful the Ministry of Education is that they are slow. They are dilatory successful responding to our demands,” Piwuna said.
According to him, contempt respective meetings and letters exchanged betwixt the national and the acquisition ministry, the authorities failed to enactment wrong the agreed timeline.
“They gave america 3 weeks. We went for a gathering successful Sokoto, and astatine that time, we were astir to embark connected the onslaught action. They gave america 3 weeks. We accepted the 3 weeks. We ne'er heard a connection from them until the 3 weeks elapsed,” helium explained.
Piwuna said the authorities lone reached retired erstwhile ASUU threatened to statesman concern action, adding that the deficiency of timely engagement has go a recurring challenge.
“Not a connection from them, courtesy to adjacent say, ‘gentlemen, we deliberation we’re moving short, we are incapable to conscionable with you connected so-so date,’ nothing — until we threatened action. And yesterday, they are appealing to america not to embark connected an action,” helium said.
The ASUU president besides lamented that the 2009 statement betwixt the national and the Federal Government, which has been nether renegotiation for 8 years, remains unresolved.
“Our 2009 statement that is being renegotiated is inactive undone. We person not concluded connected it. And 2 days to a onslaught action, 2 moving days to a onslaught action, you travel to entreaty to us. I deliberation the entreaty has travel a small excessively late,” Piwuna stated.
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