The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU has stated that some officials of government are responsible for sabotaging its negotiations with the Federal Government.
This was disclosed by ASUU Chairman, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke in an interview on Tuesday.
He added that the sabotage has been responsible for the futile negotiations with government, hence the continuous strike.
“We would finish the process and conclude negotiations, but all we would hear is that ASUU chased out some officials. one Mr Zara in National Salaries, Income and Wages, went and lied to the government that we chased him out of meetings,” he said.
“The good thing is that we have all the minutes of the meeting where he attended each of them but he went and lie to just scatter the process. That’s what they have been doing.
“The people scattering these things, not even the political elites, are the bureaucrats.
‘Why would you tell the government that they chased you out of negotiation when you know it’s a lie?
“This is how they keep on putting wedges. We will finish and they will throw wedges on it. And that is why we are where we are today.”
Earlier on Monday, ASUU extended its strike by another one month .
