ASUU rejects FG’s N10m loan, gears up for protests

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has urged the Federal Government to delist the union from the Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund while calling on its members to gear up for fresh protests over unresolved demands.

The union described its inclusion in the FG loan scheme as a ploy by the government to conscript it as a “guarantor of loans it knows nothing about.”

This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting held at the Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, and signed by its president, Christopher Piwuna, on Tuesday.

ASUU maintained that rather than float loan schemes, the Federal Government should release the “withheld three and a half months’ salaries of its members,” which it said would be of more value to them.

The communiqué read, “NEC resolved to reject the ploy to conscript ASUU as ‘guarantor’ of loans the union knows nothing about and demands that ASUU be delisted from the process.

“NEC calls on the government to fast-track the conclusion and implementation of the lingering renegotiation of the FGN-ASUU agreement by the Yayale Ahmed-led committee, guided by the principles of collective bargaining.

“NEC also resolved to press for the release of the withheld three-and-a-half-month salaries of ASUU members instead of loans that will add little or no value to their lives.” Punch