Implementation of Govt/ASUU agreements yet to begin one-week to deadline

ANOTHER round of strike is looming in the nation’s universities as Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) counts down to the deadline for the implementation of agreements reached with the government.

The deal led to the conditional suspension of the university teachers’ indefinite strike action in September.

The government and ASUU had signed the agreement as a result of the strike embarked upon by the union to press home its demand for the implementation of the memorandum of understanding entered into between both parties in 2013 as well as the 2009 agreement.

A time line of this month was reached between the government and the unions for the implementation of some components of the agreement, especially the payment of shortfall in salaries and earned academic allowances.

But some lecturers spoken to informed The Nation that barely one week to the end of the October timeline, the government has not implemented any aspect of the agreement, even when they claimed during negotiation that implementation had begun.
The Nation, October 25, 2017

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