Governor Gabriel Suswam of
Benue State on Friday
expressed the optimism that
the ongoing industrial action by
members of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities might end
in the next one week.
Suswam, who is the chairman of
the National Economic
Empowerment Development
Strategy Assessment
Implementation Committee of the
universities, spoke with
journalists shortly after a
meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan at the Presidential Villa,
Abuja.
He said, “I want to say that we
are having negotiation with
ASUU. In the next one or two
weeks, we should be able to
arrive at something that will
necessitate them calling off the
strike, once we are able to agree
with them on all issues that they
have raised.
“So far, there are only two
outstanding issues, the NEEDS
assessment and the earned
allowances. The NEEDS
assessment which I’m handling,
we have virtually concluded. I
think by next week, it will be
definite.
“The earned allowance, the SGF is
still holding meeting (with them),
I believe that in the next one
week, given the seriousness of
the issue, we will be able to come
to some level of agreement with
ASUU, which will probably lead to
calling off the strike. I am not
saying they are calling off the
strike, we have to agree on these
two remaining issues.”
The governor said the committee
he chairs will be meeting again
with ASUU on Tuesday and that a
sub-committee with ASUU
inclusive had been set up to look
at the NEEDS assessment
document and get out some
projects that the President will
immediately inaugurate between
now and September.
He said with the commitment by
government to be releasing
money every year, the nation’s
universities would be given a
new lease of life.
Suswam said the process would
start with N1billion and that
benefitting universities would be
selected across the six
geopolitical zones, where the
President decides to launch any
project. He added, “Already, we
have called all the funding
agencies and we have been
holding meetings with them.
“What we are trying to do is that
all the monies that agencies and
individual capacities be
harnessed so that it will be well
coordinated. Then we know that
this is how much the Federal
Government is spending on our
institutions on a yearly basis, as it
is now. But as things are now,
nobody knows apart from the
budgetary money, which is
passed by the National Assembly.
Nobody actually captures what is
being expended by TETFund,
NITTDA, CBN amongst others.

ASUU is d 1 in d position to tell us if d demands are being met not some old dirty politician

Now,shld i b jumping or lafing?it no news...and again,source plz?

gov of benue state campanin 4 2015.that is what he seld last week