The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) Branch, says it will continue its indefinite strike until the Ondo State Government addresses its demands.
The Chairman of ASUU-AAUA, Prof. Boluwaji Oshodi, stated this in an interview on Wednesday in Akure.
Oshodi was reacting to the state government’s approval of a 60 per cent increase in monthly subventions to state-owned tertiary institutions and its directive for the immediate implementation of the FGN-ASUU agreement to address welfare concerns.
He said the union had not been officially briefed on the details of the intervention, adding that members only learnt about it through media reports.
“For now, everything we read is still in the newspapers. Nobody has given us any official information.
“The governor has not been interacting with the union; he has only been interacting with the management.
“So, as we speak now, we do not have the facts aside from what we have been reading on the pages of newspapers,” Oshodi said.
On the possibility of suspending the strike, the branch chairman said the industrial action would continue because the union’s major demands remained unresolved.
“The strike has just started. The way it is now, if what we are reading is true, then the issues have not been addressed.
“We have been talking about two major issues – the implementation of the FGN/ASUU 2025 agreement and the payment of salary arrears starting from January.
“The government said implementation should commence immediately, but we don’t know what that ‘immediately’ means. The issues have not been addressed,” he added.
ASUU-AAUA declared a total and indefinite strike on Aug. 11 over the non-implementation of the 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement and the non-payment of accumulated salary arrears owed to its members since January.
