Senate Will Bring Back FG, ASUU To Reconciliation — Lawan
Ahmad Lawan, the President of the Senate, said on Tuesday that the Senate will intervene in the lingering dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by bringing back the two parties to the negotiation table. INDEPENDENT reports.
Lawan made the promise to the officials of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), who were led to his office by a concerned Methodist Bishop, Dr. Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha.
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The NANS President, Sunday Asefon, who spoke for his other colleagues decried their continued stay at home and disruption of their academic programme and urged the Senate President to intervene in the dispute between the Federal Government and the university teachers.
According to INDEPENDENT, in response, the Senate President expressed unhappiness about the turn of events, recalling that the Senate had intervened in the past before everything broke down again. He, however, promised that the Senate would wade in again and expressed optimism that the issues would soon be resolved. “You are in the right place. We are going to intervene. Information Guide Nigeria
“But I want to appeal to you too, since we are going to make effort to bring back everybody back to the negotiating table, you should give us a chance to do that believing that we are going to find a solution because it is not only enough to bring them back to the negotiating table, but we will participate and I want to make sure that we find the solution when we start the negotiation again.
“Now that you have come here, we are going to make sure that everybody in this sector especially those in public sector who have responsibility and mandate perform their functions. We will make sure they do that”.
“Because you have come, I think we also have some tonic enough in us. Time is of essence and we must do whatever is necessary to get this issue resolved.”
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Also responding to the threat by the students to disrupt political activities, Lawan appealed to them to continue in the path of consultation and avoid confrontation.
“I want to also advise, I don’t think it will be necessary to disrupt political activities. We shouldn’t do that and we don’t need to do that”. jamb results
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to Canada‘What we need to do is to continue to follow the path of consultation, consolidation, and avoid confrontation.
It is when you emphasise consultation, it is much easier for us to find something that you can consolidate.
“Your prayer is that you want the Federal Government and ASUU back to negotiate and resolve the issues.
We have taken this prayer. We have endorsed it and we will work on it as quickly as possible.
“It is an opportunity for me also to appeal to ASUU to suspend this strike period because there is no way ASUU can negotiate with the Federal Government when it is on strike.
So it is an opportunity for us to have them, at least create a window, suspend the strike for a certain period, and let us see how far we can go.
“I want to be very positive that we are going to resolve this issue as soon as possible by the Grace of God,” Lawan said.
The Senate President said the 2009 agreement which is the crux of the matter was not properly thought out before it was signed.
“Somebody just wanted ASUU to go back to the classroom and just signed everything there”.
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