The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) this Monday started a four-week warning over the failure of the Federal Government to meet its demands.
ASUU’s decision to finally embark on strike came after serious deliberations that dragged into the early hours of Monday, where the National Executive Council of the union voted to embark on a one-month warning strike to press home its demands from the government.
According to a source at the meeting which was held in Lagos, the decision is to give the Federal Government another chance to do the needful or ASUU would go on an infinite strike if the government fails to meet its demands.
The source said it would be in the interest of all for the Muhammadu Buhari-led government to see the need to avoid a total paralysis of academic activities in the nation’s universities.
Noting that members of the union are parents too and have their children in the system, the source, however, said ASUU cannot watch and allow the total collapse of education in the country.
It added that ASUU’s agitation was in the interest of all and that if the system is made better, everybody will all enjoy it.