Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has urged the Federal Government to honour the agreement it voluntarily entered with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU for the union to call off its strike.
Governor Ortom made the appeal today, Tuesday, July 26th, 2022 while addressing members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Benue State Chapter who embarked on a two-day sympathy protest in support of ASUU.
The Governor who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Tony Ijohor said it was unacceptable, the inability of the Federal Government to resolve her issues with ASUU resulted in students staying at home for more than five months.
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He stated that the Benue State Government was in full support of the sympathy protest by the NLC as well as other actions it intends to embark upon and promised to take their grievances to appropriate quarters.
Governor Ortom also called on the Federal Government to revisit its “no work no pay” policy to armtwist ASUU into submission, saying the honourable thing to do was for the Government to address all the issues raised by the union.
The Governor disclosed that his Government would sit with the Joint Action Committee of NASU AND SSANU of the Benue State University within the shortest possible time with a view to negotiating and solving their issues.
