The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has demanded that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to show it an evidence that the balance of their earned academic allowance had been mainstreamed in the 2019 budget.
The ASUU’s national president, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi, made the demand while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin on Sunday at the sideline of ‘‘Day of Tributes’’ held in honour of the late Prof. Samson Oduleye who was part of the famous Unilorin 49 +.
Speaking on ASUU’s alleged threat to mobilise its members for industrial action should the federal government fail to fulfill agreement reached with the union, the ASUU president said the union had shelved such a plan.
Meanwhile, the national president of the academic union called on the authorities of university of Ilorin to tender an apology to the family of late Prof. Oduleye, and others vindicated by Supreme Court Judgement.
Mr Oguyemi said the Supreme Court judgement which favoured the affected lecturers is enough for the university management to admit that it ‘‘acted wrongly and should own up to its wrong doing’’.
‘‘Professor Oduleye won all his court cases against university of Ilorin. The University should therefore see the passing away of this relentless advocate of excellence, justice and fairness in the institution as occasion for sober reflection and opportunity to mend its ways,’’ he said.
While describing the deceased as ‘‘a comrade prof’’, the ASUU president who presented a 96 pages ‘‘book of tributes’’ containing over 74 entries at the occasion, said ‘‘the university owes him (late Oduleye) and his family an apology, as it also does many other victims’’ of the Unilorin 49 + struggle.
