ASSU STRIKE: FG takes ASSU to court

The furious debate between the central government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that has kept numerous colleges closed for over seven months will move to the Industrial court next Monday.

ASUU had left protesting since February 15 to fight claimed rot of framework at the different organizations, as well as disregard of the government assistance of its individuals.

A dependable source at the Federal Ministry of Labour told THISDAY the previous evening that the service's Exchange Debate Division had documented a case under the watchful eye of the Industrial Arbitration Court in Abuja and that the conference would start next Monday.

As indicated by the source, "The national government has recorded a case at the Arbitration Court challenging the proceeded with strike by the university teachers. This is in congruity with Segment 17 of the Trade dispute Act."

There have been series of dealings between the federal government and the ASUU administration yet completely finished in impasse without a substantial result.

Notwithstanding, talks between the federal government and ASUU at last hit the stones last Tuesday after the two sides met at the National University Commission's office in Abuja.

The federal government had said that it wouldn't consent to some other arrangement it can't carry out.

Minister of Education, Malam Adamu, uncovered this during a gathering of Pro-Chancellors and Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities, held at the NUC's office.

Adamu said President Muhammadu Buhari had cautioned the public authority's group associated with the exchange with ASUU against consenting to an arrangement that the public authority wouldn't have the option to satisfy.

The minister said the public authority had offered the association a 23.5 percent pay increment "for all classifications of the labor force in federal universities, with the exception of the scholarly framework which will partake in a 35 percent up survey. He said the public authority had likewise guaranteed that N150 billion "will be accommodated in the 2023 Spending plan as assets for the revitalisation of federal universities, to be dispensed to the Establishments in the First Quarter of the year."

Likewise, the public authority said N50 billion would be given "for in the 2023 Spending plan for the installment of extraordinary unpaid debts of procured scholarly stipends, to be paid in the first quarter of the year."

Notwithstanding, ASUU and three other college associations have dismissed the proposition, depicting it as "deficient to satisfy their particular needs expected to handle the difficulties standing up to the university framework."

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