Toyin,
just to add to what you already said , if government is truly serious that it does not have enough money to pay University lecturers their arrears of earned allowances, then they must rotate or democratise the owing of salaries/allowances now, so that perhaps be the President, the Ministers, Legislators etc. will go without their allowances for a few years while too and ASUU paid for now. This can be repeated until such a time arrears of allowances/salaries can be eliminated completely. Its absurd to ask one group of working citizens to put up with arrears of allowances while some others receive their pay in full plus their thief-thief money.
If government is sincere about the payment of earned allowances as the claim would it take over a few days to come up with the actual figures they said they are waiting for? Or is it a case of the Federal Government plotting trick ASUU into calling off its strike so that the problem continues?
Full payment of arrears of lecturers' earned allowances should be effected immediately, then ASUU should go on to renegotiate downwards its demands on funding universities in view of any verifiable claims regarding inadequacy of funds for investment in public universities in Nigeria.
I don talk my own jare!
Chuma
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From: Oluwatoyin Adepoju <tovadepoju@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 03:36:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: State of the Nigerian Universities in PHOTOS and Our National Legislators earns N15,000,000,.00K a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Go to Abuja and you see Legislators buying mansions with huge monies WHILE THE UNIVERSITIE
It may be argued that ASUU has a duty to be informed about the specifics in allowances for its members.
Not only is that the union's job, such specifics can easily be defined in terms of particular parameters.
Beyond that, can it do more than make suggestions to those whose responsibility it is to run the university system?
Secondly, is it realistic to expect ASUU to be able to make detailed suggestions about infrastructural issues that differ across universities?
It is one thing to expect more from ASUU, it is another to make sweeping, condemnatory conclusions from data that is inadequately analysed just because it fits a particular thesis to make those conclusions.
Finally, university funding has been central to ASUU demands since the 1990s when I began to follow the union's activities.
It is not new.
Thanks
toyin
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
Tunji,Please go back and look at the so-called agreements and MOU. Bolaji has done this discussion a great deal of good by posting them earlier. They are broad, fantastical documents of general principles based on assessed needs. They are NOT (repeat, NOT) specific in any sense. They do not address any specific infrastructural needs that affect students and learning. Did you see the section regarding the 1.3 Trillion naira? That section and others demonstrate clearly that the ASUU negotiators did not really care about the funding issue. Why should they, when they don't think students deserve a fair shake as the primary consumers of the products of our higher institutions? The so-called agreement and MOU on funding read like afterthoughts that were haphazardly cobbled together after ASUU got the specific promises and concessions regarding allowances and perks that it wanted. When it comes to the allowances, there is remarkable specificity but when it comes to the funding that ASUU claims as the centerpiece of its struggle, there is shockingly little specificity and plenty of unbelievably bureaucratic nonsense about "agreeing to recommend," agreeing " to take up with the relevant authorities," etc.I believe in trade unions and I believe that unions have a right to negotiate better terms for their members. But I believe that unions also have a duty to make concessions and sacrifices for the continuity and improvement of the sector in which they operate, in which members earn their living. More importantly, I believe that a union should not lose sight of the human subjects (and consumers/victims) of its members' work, especially when the union wants to be seen not simply as a trade union but as a catalyst for reform.--
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