ASUU Strike: Ngige criticizes education ministry, suggests alternative to strike.

The bosses in the Federal Ministry of Education do not feel the strike. There are things that are above me. I am not Minister of Education.

The Federal Government has restated its commitment to the renegotiation of the conditions of service of all workers in public universities across the country.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said this when he received members of the government side of the 2009 Federal Government/University based unions agreement re-negotiation committee led by its Chairman, Nimi Briggs, on Monday in Abuja.

Mr Ngige said this in a statement signed by Patience Onuobia, the Acting Head, Press and Public Relations, in the ministry.

The minister was speaking against the backdrop of the ongoing strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

He said that as the conciliator, he has been pushing to see that everything contained in the 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the government and the union was done, including the implementation of the renegotiated positions.

He recalled that the renegotiation commenced in 2017 when the Federal Government inaugurated a committee headed by Wale Babalakin who was later replaced by Munzali Jibril, but COVID-19 struck in 2020.

The minister said that in the December 2020 agreement, he gave the government side a timeline to return to the university unions who are their employees to sort everything out.

“I started pushing to see that things were done. What the Munzali committee came up with is a proposal. Both Munzali and ASUU did not sign. At our last meeting in February before ASUU proceeded on strike, we said everyone should go back to his principal.

”I asked Education several times what they had done with the document. We later got information on areas of disagreement. There is nothing wrong with that. It is bound to happen. I told ASUU to put up a committee, they said Munzali committee had expired.

“As a conciliator, I have to make use of the labour instruments at my disposal. The bosses in the Federal Ministry of Education do not feel the strike. There are things that are above me. I am not Minister of Education.

”I cannot go to the Education Minister and dictate to him how to run his place. But I told ASUU that you should be bombarding them at the Federal Ministry of Education for this to be moved forward. There are many ways to do so,” he said.

According to him, if you go to the labour act there is something called picketing. You can picket, strike is an ultimate thing.

“Picketing means that you can stay at the corridor, clapping or singing. Workers are permitted to do so. But everytime there is a disagreement, it is strike.”

“It is the children and some of us parents that have our children in public schools. I have my children in public universities, including those on my foundation’s scholarship and sponsorship.

“So, I am a parent. I feel it. I didn’t send my children to Igbinedion or Afe Babalola or Cambridge,” he said.


He said the Nigerian university system produced him and he remains proud of it.

“Why won’t I support if ASUU and their unions now want a renegotiation of their conditions of service, which is the main thing in the proposal by previous Munzali committee.”

Also speaking, Mr Briggs, who is also the Pro Chancellor of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndifu Alike, Ebonyi State, said the renegotiation committee was consulting all stakeholders with a view to finding a lasting solution to issues in dispute.
(NAN)

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Incompetent people sharing blame games.

ignis:
Incompetent people sharing blame games.

It's surprising that he didn't accuse the education ministry of being run by the PDP. The govt tells its citizens that there isn't money to meet ASUU's demands but politicians in govt are currently spending more than what ASUU and other University unions are demanding just to mobilize for elections...very strange.

Who can list out the achievement of Chris Ngige as the minister of Labour sef Cause I heard he also wants to contest

Hmmm..

Picketing? Hehe. So that ASUU can become vseless like the toothless dog called NLC?

This strike should last till August. lol

VladimirPutiin:
This strike should last till August. lol

You be student?

Cause if you are a student or serious student you won't say such.

So he is trying to push the blame to Adamu Adamu. Be like sey the heat don too much for am to bear alone. Adamu and Nwajiuba get ready to chop small heat.

Truth is Ngige is doing his best to strike a balance between been a conciliator and been an appointee of the FG. IT IS DEFINITELY A DIFFICULT JOB. If you witness one of those meetings that's when you will understand all about the ASUU strike. Signed documents upon documents by FG is presented by ASUU will just dumbfound Ngige.

We pray that the FG will intervene do that students can move on with their lives.

The administration implements the vision of the president.

And it seems Buhari sees that the northern part is little behind in education, but rather than facilitate their progress; he’d prefer the young ones as herders; and the rest of the country as farmers, so that the herders and their cattle’s can have farms to loot or graze but times are changin, but not his disdain for the educational sector, thinking the sector paralysis would benefit his crude visions.

And no matter how exposed members of his cabinet seems, it’s the precondition of membership, to have shared vision with the presidency.

To the president, Education continues to serve the southernmost. The Northern elites have children schooling abroad. The Govt itself is sponsoring repentant bandits and repentant terrorist to study abroad where the quality of education is Topnotch and no blitz. In Nigeria, the rest of us are victims of the president disdain for our education. He would make sure we cannot even afford the foreign currency to send a southern child abroad for schooling. And he would do, until the southern youths has no advantage over their northern brothers in education.

So ASUU can strike forever, and Ngige will seem clueless about the resolution, because that is the prayer of his master.

Whatever just resume make I finish my four months and leave una school for una.
But wait a lil beat I still d cash out for one hustle wer I just collet ahbeg

Adamu Adumu is very arrogant.

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