ASUU: Until Government Implements The 2012 MoU, We Will Not Call Off The Strike

Vice-chairman of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, Ambrose Alli University,
Ekpoma, Dr Monday Igbafen has said
President Goodluck Jonathan was “the one on
strike.”
According to him, “President Jonathan is the
one on strike because he has refused to
implement agreements, so he should be
disregarded. He said he will soon call off the
strike; what has he done to warrant
suspension of the strike? Nothing concrete. I
don’t know where he is getting his
information from.
“You are not implementing anything, you are
not doing anything as President to end the
strike yet you said you want to suspend
strike. We are watching him. We have not
seen anything concrete to warrant the
suspension of the strike. If we have seen him
implementing the 2009 agreement or the
January 2012 MOU government entered with
the union on how to implement 2009
agreement then we will say he is correct.
“As it is now we have not seen anything. The
position of the union is still very clear to us
that the strike continues. We held our rally
today to sensitize our people that we are still
on strike and it was successful. So I don’t
understand what Jonathan is saying.
“Until government implements the 2012
MOU we will not call off the strike; that is
simple. This is the position of our members
in Edo and Delta and the position in all the
states. Even the vice-chancellors are saying
the N100 billion will not even be enough to
sustain the universities yet the Federal
Government is there playing games. Ministers
are buying bullet proof vehicles every day yet
they said no money to improve our
educational system, that is a shame and we
are really embarrassed with the President”.