The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has faulted the claims of the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi.
Ogunyemi had blamed the Federal Government for ASUU’s failure to call off the nine-month-old strike, noting that the lecturers would not return to classes until their salary arrears were paid.
The ASUU President added that the government had failed to deliver on offers made to the union.
However in a statement released today, December 8. the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said it is unfair for the academic body to make such a claim.
According to him, ASUU had at its last meeting on November 27, agreed to call off their strike before December 9 but failed to honor the promise
He said, “The truth of the matter is that a ‘gentleman agreement’ was reached at the last meeting in which ASUU agreed to call off the strike before December 9, 2020, and the minister, in turn, agreed that once the strike is called off, he would get a presidential waiver for ASUU to be paid the remainder of their salaries on or before December 9.”
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