ASUU MULLS FG OFFER, SILENT ON DETAILS. University lecturers across some 120 schools nationwide begin meeting Monday to consider concessions made by President Goodluck Jonathan in a flurry of meetings last week in hopes of deciding whether to call off or go on with their industrial action. The details of President Jonathan’s meeting with Academic Staff Union of Universities—the first-ever with him since lecturers walked out of university classrooms early July—are still concealed despite meeting with high-level administration officials in the past two weeks. As at Sunday, Daily Trust learnt, members of ASUU meeting in various chapters of the union were still unaware of the details of government concession regarding stalled implementation of agreements both sides reached since 2009. “We have not heard the message. It is [today] that we are going to hear the message,” Prof Ndubuisi Idenyi, chairman of the union’s chapter at Ebonyi State University, told Daily Trust on phone. But a lecturer at the school revealed to Daily Trust they “expect that at the meeting, ASUU will tell us what exactly government told them”, followed by possible analysis of the conditions and a call to vote on decision. Both ASUU and government have played down the critical nature of Monday’s chapter congresses nationwide. Chairman of the union’s chapter at University of Abuja, Clement Chup, insisted he didn’t know about Monday’s congress to discuss government offers, but added that the contents of the meeting “is within our members.” He told Daily Trust: “It is a normal congress meeting. We have congress meetings every two weeks. It is one of them we will have [today]. There is nothing spectacular.” -CULLED FROM DAILY TRUST
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:20:48 +0000
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