ASUU: No Promises On Absence Of Strike In 2023 — Former Union Leader

A former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has stated that there are no guarantees that the union won't embark on strike actions in 2023.

Ogunyemi made the comment on Saturday during an appearance on Channels TV's '2022 In Retrospect'.

According to him, the federal government is insensitive to the plight of lecturers and it is against justice that people who have been made to work in arrears should not be paid in arrears.

Speaking further, he slammed the federal government over its pro rata payment method, saying a fresh industrial action cannot be ruled out in the new year.

“We must understand what triggers strike action. I don’t think anybody can promise you there will be no strike (in 2023)", Ogunyemi said.

“I don’t think any ASUU leader can promise that because when our members’ salaries are withheld because if the government is saying no work, no pay, then at some point, our members can say no pay, no work.

“The work they said they said our members did not do in 2022 between February and October, many universities have made our members do the work; they have taught courses that were left untaught, they have conducted exams that were not conducted and they are about graduating students that ordinarily supposed to lose the session because the government failed.

“In our universities today, our members are being made to teach in arrears.

"If the government is withholding arrears of their salaries, things may get to a head where our members will insist that their salaries be paid", he added.