ASUU, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, has provided an explanation for why it’s meeting with the Federal Government earlier this week ended in a deadlock.
Recall that ASUU met with the Federal Government on Tuesday, August 16, through the Prof. Nimi Briggs committee, but the meeting ended without an agreement to terminate the protracted strike that has kept university students at home for the past six months.
ASUU claimed that it rejected the Federal Government’s offer because it was “miserly.”
This information was provided by the ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in a statement released on August 18th, headlined “Why ASUU rejects government’s award of salary.”
The statement read in part, “The major reason given by the Federal Government for the miserly offer, paucity of revenue, is not tenable.
“There is wasteful spending, misappropriation of funds and outright stealing of our collective patrimony.
“ASUU believes that if the leakages in the management of the country’s resources are stopped, there will be more than enough to meet the nation’s revenue and expenditure targets without borrowing and plunging the country into a debt crisis as is the case now.”
