ASUU resumes indefinite strike ( Taraba Chapter)


ASUU strike


The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Taraba State University chapter, on Wednesday

 resumed indefinite strike to press home its demands. ASUU strike The union had embarked on a

strike in 2018 but suspended it when the Taraba government promised to meet its demands which

included the payment of earned academic allowances from 2014 till date, and the provision of

required infrastructure to enhance teaching and learning. Dr Samuel Shikaa, the branch Chairman,

and Dr Atando Agbu, the Secretary, in a statement shortly after the Executive Council Meeting with

national officials in Jalingo, said that the teachers would remain at home until the demands were met.

The union said that the law establishing the university, which specified adequate funding for the

institution, had been abandoned by the state government. “Law no 4 of 2008 specified that five per

 cent of the state allocation, five per cent of the Local Government allocation and two per cent of all

contracts will be used in funding the university, but all of these have been neglected. “If you go round

the university, you will discover that a part from the library and senate building which are still under

construction, every other buildings you will see are constructed and furnished by the Tertiary

Education Trust Fund. “If you refer to this university as TET Fund University, you will not be wrong

because the few infrastructures here are provided by the fund,” he said. In a reaction, Mr Ande Boyi,

President, National Association of Nigerian Students (NASS), Taraba State University chapter, 

appealed to Gov. Darius Ishaku of Taraba to  meet the union’s  demands to enable students continue

 with their studies. Breaking :“Now that the strike has been declared, the student body is appealing to 

Ishaku to immediately meet the demands of ASUU to ensure that students don’t stay at home for

long,” he said. He lamented that students had just resumed from the nationwide strike only to be

 confronted by another round of strike. ASUU restates commitment to 2019 Memorandum of Action with FG


source:https://samueljackson12.blogspot.com/2019/04/asuu-resumes-indefinite-strike-taraba.html

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