ASUU denies N100bn payment by FG

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has denied receiving N100 billion from the federal government.

The University of Abuja branch chairman, Dr Kassim Umaru, speaking on Tuesday, during the union’s congress at the University’s Campus in Gwagwalada, said, “the congress deliberated on issues around the strike and vehemently rejected the offer presented by the federal government.

According to him, the federal government has frustrated all genuine efforts it had made to end the industrial action.

All these being said in social media and newspapers are not true.”
“Is there any document to our union? We should begin to ask them these questions. The students will have to be patient, it is a fight we have to do once and for all and it is a fight for the future of unborn children.

“We have no alternative than to do what we are doing and we must do it so that we can compete with the external world.

“In the entire world today nobody jokes with education, if you are talking of economy, you are talking of cultural and social aspect, you must invest in education, no single country jokes with education like the way Nigerians are doing,” the ASUU chairman said.

Umaru, who said the union has a structure on how it takes decisions, added that the National Executive Council, NEC, will meet at the end of the four weeks ultimatum to take its decision, on the lingering strike.

According to him, “at the end of the expiration of the ultimatum on Sunday, the needful will be done.”