Senate/ASUU meeting ends in deadlock yesterday
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ABUJA—SIX days after a
meeting between the Senate and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU
ended in stalemate, another interface between both parties again ended in
deadlock yesterday. At the end of the eight hours meeting which ended 8.32 pm
last night, there was no concrete agreement between the university lecturers
and the lawmakers.
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Addressing journalists
after the meeting, Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Education, Senator
Jibrin Barau, APC, Kano North, said both
parties agreed with some of the issues raised, except one that had to do with
their earned allowances, adding that they (ASUU) were going to make
consultations with their members on the way forward. Barau said: “You can see
we have spent about 8 hours in this very important meeting.
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We have deliberated and
thank God we have dealt with all the issues and we have agreed in all the
issues except one. “We have adjourned to make consultations, every sections of
the meeting will get back to his constituency and report to it what transpired.
At a later that we will reconvene to thrash out the remaining issues.
“Is about
the earned allowances that need to be paid the university lecturers, the
government due to the paucity of funds proposed certain amount of money but
ASUU thought otherwise that the money was quite inadequate but he’s going back
to his members to report to them and make consultations and later get back to
us. “But we do hope they come up with good news that they have accepted the
government offers” Efforts to speak to ASUU to get their own side of the story
proved abortive as the president refused to speak with journalists. Meanwhile,
ASUU yesterday said meetings and consultations were ongoing to ensure that
government did the needful.
Speaking yesterday, ASUU-UNILAG Chairman, Dr
Laja Odukoya, said the one week warning strike of ASUU was still on, adding
that there was possible of an indefinite strike should government fail to do
the needful.
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