By News Editor
The Federal Government have assured of an early end to the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which has stretched to the fourth month.
The assurance was made Wednesday by the Minister for Labour and Employment Dr Chris Ngige, who disclosed that negotiation resumes on Thursday, June 23, 2022, between the Federal Government and ASUU.
He said the FG is determined to find an amicable resolution to all matters concerning the education sector, adding that the government is not unmindful of the fact that other unions within the education sector, among them the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and lecturers in the National Colleges of Education are also waiting in the wings with their grievances, said government is determined to leave a working template that would put prolonged strike action by the unions in the sector to rest.
He observed that what is expected was that having made their grievances known to the government, ASUU ought ordinarily to have not disrupted academic activities as discussions could still have continued with the government while academic activities goes on, adding however that notwithstanding the strike, the government is determined to quickly resolve all lingering grievances to enable the lecturers get back to work.
He assured Nigerians of the determination of the government to bring relief to ASUU in the shortest possible time.
It would be recalled that ASUU declared a resumption of their suspended strike action on February 15, 2022, making the strike action to have entered its fourth month already.
Late 2019, ASUU had embarked on a strike action which ran for nine months and was suspended only in September 2020.