By Ranmilowo Ojalumo
The Senate has urged the Federal Government to resolve issues with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) so as to end the ongoing strike in universities.
ASUU commenced an indefinite strike on Monday 5th November, 2018. The ongoing ASUU strike is one of the issues discussed at the Senate Plenary session on Wednesday.
The issue of the strike was raised by Senator Barau Jibrin of Kano State North senatorial district on the floor of the Senate, citing Orders 42 and 52.
At the session which was monitored by The Factual, through the senate twitter handle, Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central said, “Nigeria has been dealing with strike. The issues raised by ASUU are genuine. It is in the best interest of education in Nigeria. I demand and call on the Federal Government to concede to the demands of ASUU.”
Contributing to the debate, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa from Abia State said, “It is important that the government live up to its responsibilities. We intervened in the last ASUU strike and promised that their conditions would be looked into but the agreement has not been kept.We should look into this and ensure that agreement reached are implemented.
The Senate accordingly resolved to urge the Federal Ministry Education and its labour employment counterparts to urgently resolve any issues bordering on and in contention with the ASUU strike.
In his comment, the senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki urged the federal government to honoured agreement reached with the union. He said “it is important that the Federal Government honours the agreement to find an amicable solution to this”, the Senate President,
