ASUU urges FG honour existing agreement, seeks funding for state varsities
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to honour the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Memorandum of Action (MoA) it entered with the union.
Dr Stephen Ufoaroh, Chairman of ASUU, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU) Awka branch, who gave the advice at a post Congress news conference on Tuesday said that the call was to avert an industrial crisis.
Ufoaroh said the peace in Nigeria’s universities was being threatened by the refusal of the FG to honour the agreement between it and ASUU, which was entered into on Dec. 23, 2020, noting that the timeline had been breached by over 12 months.
He said failure to honour the terms of the agreement coupled with the introduction of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) had resulted in mutilated salaries, non-payment of promotion arrears and Earned Academic Allowance.
“As at today Feb.1, academic staff in Federal Universities are owed between one month to more than two years arrears of salaries, the situation is more pathetic in some state-owned Universities, especially in the South East.
“In Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University of Anambra State, there is no pension scheme, non-payment of several years of earned academic allowances, among others.
“We once again alert Nigerians, that unless the Federal Government strives to sincerely resolve these issues, there will be no rest for us all.
