The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), on
Wednesday hailed the Senate
Committee on Education for its
role in trying to resolve the
face-off between the union
and the Federal Government.
The National
President of the
union, Dr Nasir
Fagge, made the
commendation in a telephone
interview with the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN), in Lagos.
ASUU had on July 1, embarked
on an indefinite strike over the
non-implementation of some
issues contained in an
agreement it entered into with
the Federal government in 2009.
One week into the strike, the
Minister of Education, Prof.
Ruqqayatu Rufai, appealed to
the striking lecturers to
reconsider their stand and go
back to work, pending the
resolution of issues involved.
The Senate Committee on
Education also called ASUU for a
meeting on Tuesday, towards a
resolution of the issues--but it
could not hold.
Fagge told NAN:``I sincerely
want to appreciate the efforts of
the National Assembly in its role
at ensuring that it gets the
executive arm of government to
do what it is supposed to do on
this issue.
Our meeting with the Senate
Committee on Education that
was slated for Tuesday July 9,
could not hold because of some
pressing issues that needed
urgent attention.
The meeting has now been
moved to Monday, July 15, when
we are expected to deliberate
on several issues that are related
to the general development of
the sector''.
Fagge said he looked forward to
the meeting with the legislators
and hoped it would help in
resolving the issues which led to
the strike.
I am confident that the National
Assembly will seize this
opportunity in prevailing on the
executive to do what they are
supposed to do so.
``I hope that at the end of the
deliberation, we would have
cause to be happy and get
ourselves back to work.' Source;
m.naij.com/news/39762.html

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