Our expectations on meeting with Jonathan – ASUU

THE striking Academic Staff
Union of Universities has expressed hope
that their meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan tomorrow will bring mutually
acceptable solution to the four months old strike which has paralysed the nation’s
university education.According to the
union, they expect the meeting to 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.The union
warned that any proposal by the
Government would be based on a clear
acceptance of a framework for the implementation of the 2009 agreement,
saying that any imposition will not present a
solution to the current crisis. ASUU in a statement by Dr. Uzochukwu
Onyebinama, Chairperson ASUU, Michael
Okpara University of Agriculture,
Umudike,Abia state, urged the President “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”, the statement said.