The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it will press ahead with its nationwide strike while negotiation continues with the Federal Government.
The Vice President of the union, Alhaji Namadi Sambo recently took over the leadership of federal government negotiation team from Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue.
The Zonal Coordinator of the union in charge of Kano Zone, Dr Rabi’u Nasiru, told newsmen in Kano on Wednesday that ASUU had not changed its position on its demand for the implementation of the 2009 agreement.
He said the lecturers would continue with the strike for as long as the Federal Government failed to implement the agreement.
Nasiru, however, blamed what he described as “selfish interests” for the failure of the Suswam committee to successfully negotiate with the union.
“The meeting with the Vice-President did not provide anything new from what the government has done in the past three months.
“The Sambo committee is still giving promises and trying to negotiate the 2009 agreement, even when we should be at the point of implementation.”
He said the Federal Government had failed to inject N400 billion into Federal and State Universities.
Nasiru said that the N100 billion provided by the government was supposed to cover only 2012.
According to him, the quest to redeem the country’s fortunes should begin with education, saying that “for any country to develop, its university education must be of the highest standard”.
