ASUU strike becoming political -Suswam

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State has said the lingering strike by
the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is becoming a political
action other than an agitation for the welfare of university lecturers.

Suswam, who spoke yesterday, when he played host to the leadership of
the National Union of Benue Students, NUBES, insisted that the
leadership of ASUU was not being realistic with its demands.

Gov Suswam
According to him, 'ASUU has no business continuing with this strike
because the Federal Government has met virtually all of their demands.
There is nothing in the list of their demands that government has not
touched.

The Federal government has released N100 billion to upgrade
infrastructures in the universities and that money has been distributed
among all the universities in the country and most of them have
commenced their procurement process. While the sum of N30 billion has
also been released to take care of the Earned Allowances of lecturers
 in federal universities, pending the verification of the number of
those that are entitled to it.'