The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has told the Federal Government to honour the agreement both parties entered to forestall any future strike.
The ASUU coordinator in charge of Kano Zone, Abdulqadir Muhammad, made this call during a news conference on Wednesday in Kano.
Muhammad noted that the issues included renegotiation of the Federal Government-ASUU 2009 agreement, reached when the exchange rate to the U.S. dollar was N146 as against the current N1,900.
Muhammad said the exchange rate has eroded its salaries by 90 per cent.
He lamented that the federal government was adamant to sign the draft agreement reached with the union after the composition of new leadership of the negotiation committee.
“Therefore, the union calls on the President Bola Tinubu to immediately set in motion the process of upward-reviewing and signing of the Nimi Briggs Committee’s renegotiated draft agreement as a mark of goodwill and to forestall the industrial crisis and restore hope for Nigeria’s public universities,” he said.
Muhammad, however, confirmed that members of the union had received partial payment of their seven-month withheld salaries and stressed the need to ensure full payment of the remaining balance.
