The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared that no amount of threat through the implementation of no-work-no-pay rule applied by the federal government would force its members to suspend their four months old industrial action.

According to a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti State, yesterday by ASUU, Ilorin Zone and signed by its coordinator, Dr. Ayan Adeleke, the union said owners of private universities, who had allegedly been advising President Goodluck Jonathan to whip ASUU into line through no-work-no-pay rule, were doing so for selfish motives.

Adeleke said the threat against his members for their failure to suspend the strike would not deter it from fighting to a logical conclusion.

The body, who lashed out at those advising the president to apply the rule, which he described as ‘barbaric, obsolete and inhuman’, said no amount of pressure would dissuade the union from ensuring that the federal government implemented the agreements reached with the body in 2009.

Adeleke, who is the Chairman of the Ekiti State University chapter of ASUU, expressed displeasure at the federal government’s resort to blackmail to coerce ASUU to back-down on the struggle.
According to him, this would further fan the ember of acrimony between the body and the government.

He urged “people and organisations appealing to ASUU to call off the strike to first appeal to the federal government to implement the agreements freely entered into in 2009. to also prevail."

The ASUU Chairman said the union was appealing to the President of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Yinka Gbadebo, to dissociate himself from ASUU’s strike.

He said the action was the least expected from a body the academic union was trying to protect.
Adeleke assured that ASUU would thwart the alleged efforts by some leaders and cabals, who are masquerading as proprietors of private universities to stifle the public universities to expand the scope of their business empires.

He said: “ASUU is fighting for the sustenance of the Nigerian universities so that half-baked graduates will not litter the labour market while the society will come back to blame their lecturers.
“We will not succumb to blackmail. We will remain focused and insist that the 2009 agreements be implemented,” he said.

demelza: Striving to eat in a place where you dont work is also barbaric, obsolete and shouldnt be condoned.

Afam4eva: How is it barbaric and inhuman. Why should people reap where they did not sow?

Afam4eva: How is it barbaric and inhuman. Why should people reap where they did not sow?

emmysenior:

So, you mean the dilapidated, STDs, rotten infested toilets and other facilities in the universities are humane treatments?

The packing of students in lecture theatres is humane too?

The inadequate dirty hostel facilities is humane abi?

What about the scanty laboratories? Humane too?
Students reading with torchlights and lanterns, humane too?

I'm not justifying their embarking on strike though, but looking at the situation from two angles will pay more.

Or what do you think?

emmysenior: Technically, not paying them their salaries is forcing them against their wish/will.
These people are advocates of better tertiary institutions for and in Nigeria, though the movement is somewhat selfish.

However, if it materialises, the fate of our universities will change for good.

On another note, the ASUU never considered the psychological welfare of the students before deciding to embark on an indefinite strike... They should have looked for other alternatives instead.

emmysenior: Technically, not paying them their salaries is forcing them against their wish/will.
These people are advocates of better tertiary institutions for and in Nigeria, though the movement is somewhat selfish.

However, if it materialises, the fate of our universities will change for good.

On another note, the ASUU never considered the psychological welfare of the students before deciding to embark on an indefinite strike... They should have looked for other alternatives instead.

Demdem: Kudos to ASUU. am really proud of them.
They shouldnt bother themselves with the no work no pay shyte.
Govt will still pay them and the years of allownaces being owned them not yet paid.
Those that were not paid for years in Unilorin were eventually paid in a day making them multi-millionaires even though they were teaching in other Unis.
No work no pay no matter how honourable it is isnt the solution, the solution is the implementation of signed agreement. its honourable on the part of govt to honour her part of the agreement and let ASUU also honor hers
A labourer is entitled to his wage. let Govt Pay ASUU what is being owned them in allowances over the years and see ASUU get back to classes. Failure to do that, i dont expect them in there.

wesley80: DemdeMoron, there's a difference between 'owned' and 'owed' was it non payment of salaries that made your lecturers not teach you that? Ok I see you were supposed to have learnt that in primary school. Now tell me, if our entire education budget is channeled towards tertiary education and paying lecturer allowances how do we cater for children and give them good basic education? Or would you rather we keep churning out semi literates that do not know the difference between 'owed' and 'owned'?