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ASUU Reveals Major Reason Strike Was Suspended

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President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Esodeke has revealed why the union called off it’s eight months long strike.

Recall that ASUU called off the strike after an Appeal Court ordered the union to first obey the order of the Industrial Court, before seeking to appeal it’s judgement.

The National Industrial Court had on 21, September ordered ASUU to call off the strike.

The court order came after a motion on notice filed by the federal government, directing the lecturers to return to the classroom.

Explaining the main reason why the union called said that the strike was called off due to a court order obtained by the federal government.

Osodeke who spoke during an interview on Channels TV’s ‘Sunday Politics’, further averred that they are hoping the government will do the needful now the strike has been suspended.

He said;

“The issues have not been fully resolved and no agreement has been signed. So, we are resuming because we are a law abiding body and we don’t want to break the law. We are also hoping that the intervention of the speaker, as promised by him, will resolve these problems in a very short time.”

Asked if this means the lecturers are not happy to be resuming, Osodeke said:

“Definitely.

“In trade dispute, especially one involving university academics, the best option is negotiation and then you end it within a very short time,” he said.

“But the minister of labour believes that the best way is to force them to class. It’s so sad, but because of the interest of the Nigerian students, their parents, and the speaker, our members will teach.

“Any country that plays with education creates room for insecurity.

“We want the next administration to follow the trend of neighbouring countries and allocate not less than 16 percent of the budget to education. When this is done, these problems will be sorted out. Our children will go to school effortlessly

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