ASUU Strike: Nigerian Leacturers React
To The No Work No Pay FG Plan And
Vow To Continue Strike

The Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU has ignored the FG's
'No Work No Pay' policy and vowed to
continue the strike.
The federal government's decision to stop
paying the lecturers' salaries was
confirmed by the university lecturers after
their Thursday meeting. Rising from
ASUU's zonal conference in Abuja on
Thursday, the union responded to the 'No
Work No Pay' strategy by stating that it
had resorted to other welfare strategies to
cope with the effects of the policy.
"The Federal Government has through the
National Universities Commission, directed
universities to stop the payment of our
salaries effective September this year and
since then our salaries have not been
paid," Clement Chup, ASUU Zonal
Chairman in Abuja, said.
"Part of (our) welfare strategy, involve
distributing food items, giving out soft
loans and cash advances to members," he
added. The union is currently on an over
three-month-old industrial action over the
failure of the government to implement
the 2009 agreement it reached with the
lecturers.
Festus Iyayi, a former ASUU President, said
that the union remains resolute in the face
of the government's latest strategy. "I can
confirm that the federal government has
stopped payment of the salaries of
academic staff," Prof. Iyayi, who led ASUU
in 1986, told PREMIUM TIMES. "This 'get
them to capitulate by starving them' policy
has been employed by government in the
past. It did not work.
Our members are ready to make whatever
sacrifices are needed to make government
honour agreements," he added. The
federal government's latest move may
have pulled the plug on negotiations
between it and the striking lecturers.
The government toed a similar path during
the 2009 ASUU strike but the lecturers
stuck to their guns, with then ASUU
President, Ukachukwu Awuzie, stating that
"they would not allow the issue of salaries
to dampen the desire of its members to
seek fundamental changes in the Nigeria's
educational system.
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ASUU, abeg na

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I no fit shout.... I jux dey watch ASUU nd FG