How Fashina brokered truce between LASU staff unions, Fashola
…Govt action aimed at averting NUC, JAMB sanction
By GABRIEL DIKE
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Three times the staff unions of Lagos State tertiary institutions met last year with Governor Babatunde Fashola to deliberate on the issues in contention but thrice their discussion ended in a deadlock until the December 31, 2010 truce, brokered by Dr. Dipo Fashina, former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), led to the suspension of the four-month-old strike.
Following the failure of the government to get the staff unions in the state’s tertiary institutions back to work, Governor Fashola, Daily Sun learnt, contacted the former ASUU boss to mediate in the face-off that led to the closure and disruption of academic calendar in the four state-owned institutions: Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Ijanikin and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED).
Before the crucial meeting, both parties had stuck to their guns, with Governor Fashola insisting that the state cannot pay the various agreements signed by the national bodies of the unions with the Federal Government, while the unions’ leaders insisted that the state has the resources to meet their demands much so with N18 billion being realized monthly from Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). Noting that poorer states have implemented the demands, they insisted on continuing with the strike until their demands were met. Thus the strike lingered on until December 31 when the issues in contention were resolved and the strike suspended on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 4 and 5, 2011.
Investigation by Daily Sun shows that on December 31, Dr. Fashina and the Ibadan Zonal Co-ordinator of ASUU, Prof. Akin Ajisegiri, arrived Government House, Marina, Lagos with four union leaders, Dr. Kabir Akinyemi (LASU ASUU), Mrs Funmi Sessi (Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) LASU), Mr.Yakubu Jubril Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU- LASU) and Prince Adekunle Adenuga (LASU NAAT?).
…Govt action aimed at averting NUC, JAMB sanction
By GABRIEL DIKE
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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Following the failure of the government to get the staff unions in the state’s tertiary institutions back to work, Governor Fashola, Daily Sun learnt, contacted the former ASUU boss to mediate in the face-off that led to the closure and disruption of academic calendar in the four state-owned institutions: Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Ijanikin and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED).
Before the crucial meeting, both parties had stuck to their guns, with Governor Fashola insisting that the state cannot pay the various agreements signed by the national bodies of the unions with the Federal Government, while the unions’ leaders insisted that the state has the resources to meet their demands much so with N18 billion being realized monthly from Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). Noting that poorer states have implemented the demands, they insisted on continuing with the strike until their demands were met. Thus the strike lingered on until December 31 when the issues in contention were resolved and the strike suspended on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 4 and 5, 2011.
Investigation by Daily Sun shows that on December 31, Dr. Fashina and the Ibadan Zonal Co-ordinator of ASUU, Prof. Akin Ajisegiri, arrived Government House, Marina, Lagos with four union leaders, Dr. Kabir Akinyemi (LASU ASUU), Mrs Funmi Sessi (Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) LASU), Mr.Yakubu Jubril Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU- LASU) and Prince Adekunle Adenuga (LASU NAAT?).
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