The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has vowed that it would not suspend the on-going strike action until the N9billion arrears owed the workers is settled by the federal government. The ongoing strike action in the research and development institutions across the country has led to a shutdown of the sector for over a month. 

The general secretary of the union, Peters Adeyemi, who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, said the union is considering staging a protest at the National Assembly to pressure the federal government to meet their demands. Adeyemi blamed the current strike action in research institutes on the non-implementation of the 2010 agreement by the federal government. He said: “The non-implementation of the agreement we reached with the federal government in 2010 is the reason we decided to go into this action. It has gotten to a stage where we have to take our collective destinies in our own hands. It is unfortunate that we are in a country where the government is paying lip service to research and development. Developed economies of the world focus more on research for economic breakthroughs because there is no country that can develop without research. Therefore, our research institutes will be shut down until our demands are fully met.
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