The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to remove the union from the Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund, warning its members to prepare for fresh protests over unresolved demands.
In a communiqué issued after its National Executive Council meeting at Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, and signed by its president, Christopher Piwuna, on Tuesday, ASUU rejected its inclusion in the government’s loan scheme, describing it as an attempt to conscript the union as a “guarantor of loans it knows nothing about.”
The union insisted that instead of floating loan schemes, the Federal Government should focus on addressing outstanding issues, particularly the release of its members’ withheld three-and-a-half months’ salaries, which it said would be of greater benefit to…Continue..Reading.