{ASUU} “Meet our demands and we would get back to school” – ASUU to President Goodluck

In a course to finding a lasting solution to the context of implementation of the 2009 agreement between the FG and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),the 2012 MOU and the recommendations of the Needs Assessment Report; a mutually beneficial meeting with the President of the country, Goodluck Jonathan, on monday, is being hoped for by the Union with optimism that the four-month old strike, will be called off soon.
Stating clearly that any attempt to impose decisions by the FG will not work, the Union warned that proposal by the federal government, would be based on a clear acceptance of a framework for the implementation of the 2009 agreement,
In a statement by its Chairperson from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia state , Dr. Uzochukwu Onyebinama, ASUU asked President Jonathan “to be guided by the principle of honouring agreements in the interest of justice and industrial harmony in the country.
“As the National leadership of our union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities meet with his Excellency, President Goodluck Jonathan, tomorrow 4th November 2013 [tomorrow], we hope that the meeting will be a dialogue that will lead to a mutually acceptable fair and far reaching solution within the context of the implementation of the 2009 agreement, the 2012 MOU and the recommendations of the Needs Assessment Report.
“Any proposal by government should be based on a clear acceptance of a framework for the implementation of the 2009 agreement. Any imposition will not present a solution to the current crisis.
“We therefore call on the President and Commander- in- chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan to be guided by the principle of honouring agreements in the interest of justice and industrial harmony in the country”.