The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday announced its decision to further extend its ongoing strike by another four weeks.
The union said it took the decision during a National Executive Council meeting which held in Abuja on Sunday.
According to a statement issued by the president of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the extension of the strike is to allow government attend to its needs.
The statement reads, “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MOA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.
“The role-over strike action is with effect from 12.01a.m. on Monday, 1st August, 2022.”
It would be recalled that ASUU called out its members on a one-month strike on February 14, 2022 over the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with the Federal Government and the insistence of the government on the adoption of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) as payment platform for all federal workers.
The union proposed UTAS as an alternative platform for the payment of salaries for its members following discrepancies highlighted in the use of IPPIS.
The strike entered its 168 day on Monday, August 1, 2022.
