The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has explained that its meeting with the Federal Government of Nigeria ended in a deadlock earlier this week because of the miserable offer put on table by the government.
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘Why ASUU rejects government’s award of salary’.
ASUU’s meeting with the Federal Government ended in deadlock. The union met with the FG through the Prof. Nimi Briggs committee.
But the President in the statement said, “The major reason given by the Federal Government for the miserly offer, paucity of revenue, is not tenable.
“ASUU believes that if the leakages in the management of the country’s resources are stopped, there will be more than enough to meet the nation’s revenue and expenditure targets without borrowing and plunging the country into a debt crisis as is the case now.”