The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced the suspension of its four-month-old strike, but promised to resume by 2012, if the Federal Government fails to honour the agreement signed by the two parties on Wednesday. Ukachukwu Awuzie, the ASUU president, said that the agreement would lapse in 2012. He declared that "the agreement does not give financial autonomy to the universities, but has made certain prescriptions that will enhance administrative autonomy for smooth and effective running of the institutions from departmental to council levels.
"Strikes are avoidable, but for strikes to be avoided, government must be sincere and implement agreements," he said. "It must dialogue with unions when it is incapable of implementing agreements."
Mr. Awuzie added that the agreement prescribed UNESCO's recommended minimum of 26 per cent of the annual budget to education by both the Federal and state governments.
He said "We urge the civil society groups to demand from government, a budgetary allocation of at least 18 per cent to the education sector in 2010."
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