The
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka has voted to suspend the ongoing strike once the arrears of four months
salaries are paid.
At a meeting on
Monday as a prelude to Wednesday’s national congress in Kano, the branch said
it was resolute about the issue of salaries which accumulated during the
strike.
The branch president
of the union, Dr Ifeanyichukwu Abada, told journalist in Nsukka, Enugu State,
the decision to suspend the strike was to respect the person of “Mr President
for stepping into the matter”.
Abada said, however,
that the strike would only be called off in the university if the salaries from
July to date were paid.
He said the lecturers
were not expected to resume lectures without the salaries.
He said that if the
national body failed to insist on the salary caveat, the UNN branch would
continue with the strike until otherwise.
The lecturers
embarked on the strike from July 1 citing the non-implementation of some
agreement they allegedly reached with government in 2009.
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