The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, may not be fully aware of the issues in contention between the Union and the federal government.

Coordinator, ASUU, Owerri/Port Harcourt zone, Dr Uzo Onyebinama, who stated this in a press conference, said the Minister “in blissful ignorance”, made fictitious claims about “headstrong” lecturers in Federal Universities receiving their wages, stressing that this points out that the Ngige as a conciliator, is not fully briefed about the issues in the matter he is conciliating.

In his words: “We are not sure who on the part of the officials of the Federal Government (FG) is managing the ASUU strike with a view to resolving it and to whom they are reporting. The discordant tunes from these officials clearly indicate a free for all situation.

“Recently, on Channels TV and in the view of the whole world, the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, in blissful ignorance, made fictitious claims about “headstrong” lecturers in Federal Universities receiving their wages. This suggests to us that the so-called “conciliator” is in very stupendous oblivion of the issues in the matter he is conciliating. The Minister should please take note that the “headstrong” Accountant General of the Federation has not paid:

Onyebinama lamented that many lecturers in various federal universities are owed 8 months salaries from February – September 2020, while lecturers from the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike and University of Maiduguri are also owed 5 months salaries for April, May, July, August and September 2020.

Lecturers in other federal universities, according to him, are owed 3 months salaries from July – September 2020.

“That the Minister is unaware of these facts is very shocking. His primary responsibility and he should know it, is to ensure that a worker receives his wages as and when due, as a right. It is pertinent to instruct here that the Accountant General of the Federation, leading other “headstrong” officials of FG is deliberately using the wages of lecturers as a hunger weapon to coerce them into IPPIS, from where the feed fat from the 140 million dollar loan for Federal Civil Service Reforms. The conciliator ought to impress it on the Accountant General the need to clear these outstanding salaries with immediate effect.

“Having conceded to pay the oil workers through the GIFMIS platform, which he told ASUU that he has pulled down, what other excuses, can he give for this inhumanity to lecturers. Given what has transpired with the IPPIS platform, in the light of the experience of those who enrolled in it, we once again call for a forensic audit of IPPIS and its administrators. The time to act is now.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/salary-arrears-ngige-is-oblivious-of-issues-%e2%80%95-ASUU-fires/amp/

Hmmm make I no talk

Nawa oo

ASUU is only fighting for their stomach, all the money given to them, what have they done with it? most universities have the worst toilets i have seen,
Stop all these talks and open schools, Lecturers and students are hor.ny

lalasticlala mynd44 seun

I don't think this strike will be call off anytime soon o

dukeprince50:
ASUU is only fighting for their stomach, all the money given to them, what have they done with it? most universities have the worst toilets i have seen,
Stop all these talks and open schools, Lecturers and students are hor.ny

lalasticlala mynd44 seun

The money given by FG were given to the school administration and not ASUU! And that is part of what ASUU is fighting for again, ASUU said FG should periodically be coming to check how the Federal Universities are run, how they spent money, etc., but FG is not showing any seriousness about that leaving the University administrators to do as they like!
Smile, at the bolded, ASUU members are married therefore, if they feel they should go grab their partners

Local man is not shocked. This strike is not going to end anytime soon. Next year things. FG and ASUU are both confused. Both should be reformed sef.

The strike just started... FG only met ASUU once in March and since then nothing...

Most of these politicians have nothing to loose... Their kids are schooling abroad or have graduated..


So all man for himself

When students are ready to force FG y'all will hit the streets.. Same way everyone is tired of SARS