Mohammed Lawal Shuaibu
18 June 2008
Abuja — An Abuja Federal High Court, has set July 15, to adopt written addresses filed by the Federal Government in support of its suit seeking to restrain the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) from embarking on industrial action.
The new date which was fixed at the instance of the court was announced when the Registrar told parties in the case that the judge, Justice Adamu Bello, could not sit to adjudicate.
The Federal Government had dragged ASUU before the court in March this year after effort to achieve a peaceful resolution with the union of their crises through roundtable negotiations ended in a stalemate.
The academic union had in the same month, embarked on a-7-day warning strike to persuade the government to implement the agreements they had in the past.
The university lecturers are insisting that the government cannot debar them from carrying out industrial action, arguing that it is the only legal tool they can use to press home their demands.
But the government in the suit filed on its behalf by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), is seeking an order of the court stopping the university lecturers from going on strike.
The grounds on which the government is seeking an order of the court barring ASUU from going on strike was that it has an appeal against the union before the Supreme Court and wants the court to stop the union from embarking on any strike pending the determination of the appeal.
The appeal at the apex court is on whether the academic union can call its members out on strike against their wishes.
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