 The House of Representatives has knocked the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, for accusing the Speaker, Femi Bajabia-Mila, of deceiving the university lecturers into calling off their eight-month strike. Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Benjamin Kahlo, in a statement issued on Wednesday also stated that at no time did Bajabia-Mila agree with ASU that lecturers will be paid for the periods they downed tools. In the statement titled House of Representatives responds to Osodeke's allegation of deception against Mr. Speaker, Kahlo pointed out that the federal government legitimately withheld the salaries for the period universities were shut down.