Minister of Education, Prof. Ruquayatu Rufa'I
Culled from Thisday- With no end in sight to the debilitating strike embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the federal government, which has been holding negotiations with the union for weeks, with the aim of reaching a compromise on its demands, may be forced to break off negotiations, investigations have revealed.
Arising from a meeting yesterday in Abuja, members of the committees set up by the federal government to negotiate with ASUU expressed their frustration that they had not been able to make any meaningful progress despite all the offers made to the lecturers and resolved to halt further negotiations.
A source, who was privy to the meeting, informed THISDAY that the decision by the federal government’s negotiating team to call ASUU’s bluff was also informed by security reports that the union had been infiltrated by opposition parties which have egged on the lecturers to remain inflexible to the government’s offers.
ASUU however remained adamant yesterday when it dismissed the N100 billion offered by government for university infrastructure and accused it of insincerity, stating that the amount reportedly being disbursed to tertiary institutions was not part of the 2009 Agreement or 2012 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) entered into with the federal government.
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