The Chairman of ASUU, River State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt, says the national body of the union is not in a
hurry to suspend its seven-weeks-old strike.
Commenting on the speculation that the union
may suspend its strike yesterday (Jan. 23), Igwe told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday that the industrial action was still very much on.
He said the union could not suspend the strike without
convening a meeting of its National Executive Council.
Igwe explained that “ASUU takes its decisions based on
the mandate of the congress, and only when the congress has met can a decision be taken on the strike”.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruquyyatu Rufai, had
announced last week at the end of a meeting with ASUU,
that the strike would be called off on Jan. 23.
Igwe confirmed that although the Federal
Government had agreed to implement some aspects of
the 2009 agreement reached with ASUU, the situation in
the two state-owned universities could not be said
to be alright yet.
