Strike: Why our meeting with FG ended in deadlock – ASUU

Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has explained why it’s meeting with the Federal Government of Nigeria ended in a deadlock on Tuesday.

ASUU said it rejected Federal Government’s offer because it was “miserly.”

ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, conveyed the new stance of the union in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘Why ASUU rejects government’s award of salary’.

ASUU had on Tuesday met with the FG through the Prof. Nimi Briggs committee.

The union’s statement partly, “The major reason given by the Federal Government for the miserly offer, paucity of revenue, is not tenable.

“ASUU believes that if the leakages in the management of the country’s resources are stopped, there will be more than enough to meet the nation’s revenue and expenditure targets without borrowing and plunging the country into a debt crisis as is the case now.”