President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a board to investigate the requests of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The association has been protesting since February over the revitalisation of state funded colleges, installment of acquired scholastic remittances and the sending of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) for installment of college teachers’ compensations, among others.
In the midst of the strike, the public authority had conjured the ‘No work, no compensation’ strategy, demanding that the teachers wouldn’t be paid for the period they avoided work.
The instructors had kicked against this as the strike waited.
Yet, at meeting with Pro chancellors and Vice Chancellors in Abuja on Tuesday, Malam Adamu, Minister of Education, reported that the Federal Government had set up a council to return to the issue.
Adamu said the advisory group is comprised of four Pro-Chancellors and four Vice Chancellors, while he is the director.
He said the board of trustees is to investigate the extra requests ASUU is making especially the regions where there has not been agreement.
The clergyman said he would brief Buhari on the result of the gathering.
He noticed that the advisory group will be seeing two significant areas of conflict, the ‘No Work No Pay’ and compensation of college instructors.
While he was unable to give the time span for the panel to work, he said giving the air in the gathering, they are checking days out.
He anyway said they are not discarding the Briggs advisory group however that it is in continuation of what the board did.
On assuming there will be a survey on the public authority side on ‘NO work No Pay,’ he said: “There has been an allure by and large for the framework to require another once-over at that and that is the thing the board of trustees will investigate.”
Prior, the Minister said: “Government shouldn’t, in that frame of mind of settling current difficulties, plant seeds for future disturbances.”
“For my purposes, the beyond two weeks have been an exceptionally dim time of individual misery and interior unrest. I used to bamboozle myself that in an environment of forthrightness, and with shared generosity, it will tumble to my parcel to stop the relentless strikes in the training area. This has not demonstrated conceivable – or, in any event, not as simple, rapidly and direct, as I used to think,” he said
The pastor anyway noticed that the explanation by ASUU President that the Union would never again haggle with the ongoing Federal Government should be stood up to.
He said: “Government and ASUU have no choice than to talk, until our Universities have returned their ways to understudies who, obviously, are the vital survivors of the apparently ceaseless strikes. In the conditions, consequently, all Councils and Senates of our Universities are urged to ascend to their obligations.”
“We should, together, keep on attempting to reestablish our state funded colleges to where they were during the 60s and 70s. As the main officials in our college framework, Pro Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors, should show greater obligation to finishing the continuous strike,” he added.
