Polytechnic lecturers under the auspices of the
Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) have
said following the expiration of two weeks notice
given to the federal government, the union will begin
an indefinite strike action on February 25th, 2015.
The union had on February 11 issued a two weeks
ultimatum urging the federal government to
immediately implement the agreement it reached
with the union which led to the suspension of its
strike last July.
President of ASUP, Comrade Chibuzor Asomuga, who
addressed journalists in Abuja at the weekend at the
end of the national executive council (NEC) meeting
of the union expressed disappointment over the
government’s failure to implement the agreement it
reached with the union.
He said in July 2014, ASUP suspended the strike on
the plea of the Hon Minister of Education, Alhaji
Ibrahim Shekarau who just resumed as minister
then. He said the minister had requested for a three
month moratorium to enable him tackle the lingering
problems.
“Unfortunately and sadly too, since the suspension of
that strike and despite our strong reminders to
government on the pending issues and repeated
assurances from the minister, none of the issues has
been addressed to a logical conclusion”, he said.
“In a strange twist, rather, and without recourse to
the content and spirit of the understanding on which
the union suspended the strike, the Federal Ministry
of Education on the 26th of January 2015, under the
guise of a proposed verification exercise, issued a
circular directing the suspension of the CONTISS 15
Salary Structure which implementation dates back to
2009, thereby, creating further confusion in the
sector.
“This development is provocative, ill timed,
retrogressive, and is a flagrant breach of the trust
and character of the agreement that led to the
suspension of the strike in July, 2014. We are lost as
to the real intent and objective of the Federal
Ministry of Education in stirring the hornet’s nest at a
time when our nation is in the throes of a challenging
transition.”
He said the union had therefore resolved that at the
expiration of the two weeks ultimatum the Union has
issued to Government beginning from 11th February,
2015 on the pending issues, ASUP shall embark on an
indefinite strike action until all the ongoing anomalies
in our Polytechnics are addressed and the 13 point
demand pending before Government implemented.
Other resolution reached at the end of the NEC
included that “the Federal Government should,
without further delay dissolve the Governing Councils
of the Federal polytechnics Oko and Ado Ekiti as they
have become burdens rather than solutions to the
myriad of problems bedeviling the sector.
“That the circular issued by the Ministry of Education
suspending the implementation CONTISS 15
Migration be withdrawn with immediate effect as the
suspension is ill-timed and counterproductive and
will create further tension in the sector.
“That Managements and Councils of Polytechnics in
Nigeria must desist from interfering in ASUP
activities in their Institutions and stop forthwith the
intimidation of staff who insist that proper things be
done.”

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