FG MIGHT EXTEND DEC 4 DEADLINE FOR VARSITY TEACHERS “What ASUU is doing is no longer trade union. I have intervened in other labour issues before now. Once I invite them, they respond and after the meeting they take a decision and call off the strike. At other times, we don’t even give them a long notice unlike in the case of ASUU that was given a four -day notice before the meeting. As you are meeting to resolve trade disputes, you expect the trade unions to get their officials ready. What was expected having met with the highest authority in the land for long hours, was for ASUU to immediately issue a statement within 12 (or latest 24) hours to state their position on whether they were accepting government’s offer or not. And if they are not accepting, they state the reason why. But despite the fact that I had the longest meeting with ASUU in my political history ; we did not start that meeting until around 2 p.m. and the meeting ended the next day in the early hours of the morning….As far as the government of Nigeria was concerned, all the critical people that should be in a meeting were there, so what else do they want? After that they didn’t meet until one week, despite the fact that you met with the highest authority. It was unfortunate one of them, Prof. Iyayi, died. The way ASUU has conducted the matter shows they were extreme and when iyayi died they now said the strike was now indefinite. Our children have been at home for over five months. We didn’t give them an ultimatum. It was the Committee of Vice Chancellors that took that decision. The supervising minister of education only passed on the decision. What ASUU is doing is no longer trade dispute but subversive action. But like you rightly noted, so that we will not be perceived to be insensitive, we will consult on the deadline,”- PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN,speaking at the PDP caucus meeting yesternight in Bayelsa.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:43:07 +0000
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