Despite the Ondo State Government’s recent intervention in the state-owned tertiary institutions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) Branch, says its indefinite strike remains in force.
The ASUU-AAUA Chairman, Prof. Boluwaji Oshodi, said the union had yet to receive any official communication from the government on the announced 60 per cent increase in monthly subventions and the immediate implementation of the FGN/ASUU agreement.
Oshodi, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Akure, said members were only aware of the government’s intervention through media reports.
“For now, everything we read is still in the newspapers. Nobody has given us any official information.
“The governor has not been interacting with the union; he has only been interacting with the management.
“So, as we speak now, we do not have the facts aside from what we have been reading on the pages of newspapers”, he said.
He said the union would not suspend the strike until its major demands were resolved, particularly the implementation of the 2025 FGN/ASUU agreement and payment of salary arrears owed from January.
“The strike has just started. The way it is now, if what we are reading is true, then the issues have not been addressed.
“We have been talking about two major issues – the implementation of the FGN/ASUU 2025 agreement and the payment of salary arrears starting from January.
“The government said implementation should commence immediately, but we don’t know what that ‘immediately’ means. The issues have not been addressed”, Oshodi added.
NAN reports that ASUU-AAUA declared a total and indefinite strike on Aug. 11 over the non-implementation of the 2025 FGN/ASUU agreement and the non-payment of accumulated salary arrears owed to its members since January.
