AAUA has implemented 2009 FG-ASUU agreement--VC

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(Nigeria) Adekunle Ajasin University,  Akungba Akoko, AAUA, says it has implemented the 2009 Federal Government-Academic State Union of Universities, ASUU agreement more than any institution.
Prof. Femi Mimiko, the Vice Chancellor, told News Agency of Nigeria, on Thursday in his office in Akungba Akoko in an interview.
He said that having implemented the agreement more than any state university in the country, the institution decided to call its workers and student back to school.  
He said that the institution had paid its financial component of the agreement including the monthly `earned allowance’ of N15, 000 in the last one year to each lecturer.
Mimiko noted that the university was in constant engagement with the union in the university on how to resolve the five months old strike.
He added that the leadership of the union was not positively inclined.
``The ASUU leadership is not sure it is positively inclined; they have asked that people (lectures and students) should not come back to work. We have implemented the FG-ASUU agreement than any state university in the country. 
``We don’t want to wait for ASUU to do what we believe is needful as university administration. `Students have stayed at home for five months, it will be irresponsible of us as administrators of the estate to allow our students to remain at home till next year,’’ he stated.   
The institution had earlier in the week called back its students and striking lecturers to resume for the second semester of the 2012/2013 academic session.
The VC later said that the institution had already embarked on recruitment exercise with over 2000 applicant for various teaching positions in the university. 
Mimiko also stated that his ideology of salary was ``being paid for work done’’.
``We can't continue paying for work not being done, we need to get the school running," he said.
Meanwhile, Busuyi Mekusi, Chairman of ASUU, AAUA however told NAN that the members had resolved from a meeting held on November 26 to disregard the resumption directive by the school administration.   
Mekusi added that the union was not selfish for embarking on the strike as it was in the interest of the students.
``The whole struggle is to push for the reviving of the university education and we are doing this in the interest of the students. All the recruitment and the issue of not paying our salary will be illegal and cannot stand," Mekusi said.

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