Falana says ASUU not asking FG to pay for work not done.

Tamarauemi Ebimini

Human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not asking the government to pay for the job not done.

Falana disclosed this on Friday while speaking on the ongoing industrial action embarked on by the ASUU on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily.

The federal government had been in disagreement with the striking union, leading to the industrial court ordering the lecturers to return to the classrooms. But ASUU President, Professor Victor Osodeke, said the body would appeal the judgment.

While justifying why the lecturers should be paid their money, he said all work abandoned since the last seven months of the industrial action would be attended to when universities eventually open.

Falana posited that the strike would be over immediately if the government wants it to end.

He said, “the revitalisation of the university system through adequate funding, improvement of the condition of service of lecturers so that our universities can compete. The government agreed in 2019 and an agreement was signed.

“All the government says is we have no money, but the same administration, this year alone, increased fuel subsidy from 443 billion Naira to 4 trillion Naira and we are now being told that before the end of the year, that figure may metamorphose into 6.5 trillion.”