Tinubu Govt yet to resolve issues – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed its dissatisfaction with the federal government’s inability to carry out any of the commitments made in earlier discussions.

While the union had completed its portion of the renegotiation process, the government had not yet taken any significant action, according to ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke.

Reports state that ASUU and the federal government had earlier come to a provisional deal following the union’s repeated threats of a strike if its demands were not met.

However, Osodeke gave an update, stating that the government has not taken any concrete steps to resolve the union’s concerns other than assembling a negotiation team.

“It has been about two months now, and the government’s team has not come back to us, let alone sign a new deal. The implication of this development is that the political class does not care about any development in public universities,” he said.

Osodeke bemoaned the government’s inability to permanently address any of ASUU’s long-standing requests even after more than a year in power.

“No single issue has been permanently resolved by this government since assumption, which is more than a year now, out of all issues concerning our agreements.

So, in education, we can boldly say as a union that nothing has changed.”

We are still telling the same old story, whereas the rich keep sending their children abroad to study and returning after studies to take up the so-called lucrative positions, especially in public establishments, leaving the children of the poor to continue to suffer,” Osodeke added.

ASUU has not ruled out the prospect of a strike in the event that the administration keeps breaking its promises.