President
Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed the two Federal Government
committees negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), to take immediate measures at ending the on-going
strike.
The Chairman of the Universities Needs
Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue, made this known
after a closed-door meeting of the two committees and other stakeholders
with President Jonathan at the State House.in Abuja.
Vice-President Namadi Sambo, the
Chairman of the Earned Allowance Committee and the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim were in
attendance at the meeting.
Also in attendance were, Ministers of
Education, Prof. Ruqayyat Rufai, Labour, Emeka Wogu, the Executive
Secretary of National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okogie and
the Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadome.
Speaking with State House
correspondents, Suswam said that the meeting was summoned by the
President “to take some decisions that would end the strike’’:
“The President has instructed us, as to
what to do, and he has shown a lot of commitments to flagging off
projects worth about N100 billion in all the universities in the
country, about 61 of them.
“So, we are hoping that we will be able to see the end of the strike very soon.
“At the end of the day, we hope ASUU is satisfied with the measures that have so far been taken.
“The federal government will also be
meeting with the Universities Councils and Vice Chancellors of our
universities within the week towards updating them on some of the
decisions taken,’’ he said.
Suswam said about N100 billion had been
approved by the Federal Government to his committee to address
infrastructure deficit in all the Universities.
culled from punch
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