By Ola Kay
The House of Representatives has called for a peaceful settlement of disagreement between the Academic Staff Union, ASUU, and the management of the University of Abuja, over the current indefinite strike.
The Chairman, House Committee on University Education, Abubakar Fulata, made the appeal when he received the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah and a team of ASUU members from the institution at the National Assembly on Tuesday.
The lawmaker emphasized that, “The need to ensure non-disruption of academic activities led to the intervention, which made the Federal Government remove universities from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS.
“When we came on board, we promised that there should be no disruption of academic activities in Nigerian universities. We observed that all university managements were in complex conditions under the IPPIS.
“We made the appeal, and President Bola Tinubu listened to us and removed universities and other tertiary institutions from IPPIS.”
He urged ASUU to suspend the ongoing indefinite strike which started on May 2, promising that the National Assembly would soon come up with a bill that could help address the problem relating to appointment of a VC and the running of universities in the absence of a council.
Honourable Fulata appealed to ASUU to suspend the strike while and allow for more consultations that could lead to the final resolution of the crisis.
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