Why The Government Is Unable To End The Lingering ASUU Strike
It is no news that ASUU
the regulatory agency of Universities across Nigeria has been on strike for
some months. As a result of the strike, university students have been sitting at
home doing nothing and waiting for the government and ASUU to end the lingering
strike. The students are now at the mercy of the government and for some, there
seems no hope in sight.
According to BBC News
Pidgin, one of the major obstacles to ending the lingering strike is the issue
of the payment platform. According to them, the educational regulatory body is
insisting on using a particular payment platform.
Victor Emmanuel Osodeke, the President
of ASUU has said that the National Information and Technology Development
Agency (NITDA) which was supposed to conduct an integrity test on the University
Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) has abandoned its work even after
the platform was upgraded.
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According
to the Minister of Labour and Productivity Chris Ngigie says ASUU is trying to
prolong the strike by making negotiations almost impossible. The Minister also explained that the government
is insisting on UTAS as NITDA has failed an integrity test and that can result in
fraud and losses because fraudulent activities can be carried out on the
platform.
I discussed with ASUSS and NITDA to continue
the test and see if they can address the uses pertaining to the lapses and
score the platform 100% since that is what NITDA insists on. They said they won`t
accept a 99.9% vulnerability and integrity test and they can't take that kind
of risk because the platform can be hacked.
Ngige further revealed that ASUU members
refused to attend the meeting by which Prof Briggs's committee on the Renegociation
of 2009 collated the agenda together and he added that the committee has
finished its work and has submitted its findings to the ministry of education.
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