Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State has said
the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, is becoming a political action
other than an agitation for the welfare of university
lecturers.
Suswam, who spoke yesterday, when he played
host to the leadership of the National Union of
Benue Students, NUBES, insisted that the
leadership of ASUU was not being realistic with its
demands. According to him, “ASUU has no
business continuing with this strike because the
Federal Government has met virtually all of their
demands. There is nothing in the list of their
demands that government has not touched.
The Federal government has released N100 billion
to upgrade infrastructures in the universities and
that money has been distributed among all the
universities in the country and most of them have
commenced their procurement process. While the
sum of N30 billion has also been released to take
care of the Earned Allowances of lecturers in federal
universities, pending the verification of the number
of those that are entitled to it.” (Culled from
Vanguard)