STRIKE: FG INSISTS ON 'NO WORK NO PAY' POLICY, DEBUNKS RUMOUR OF UTAS APPROVAL

THE Federal Government on Thursday insisted that it will not succumb to the demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, for their members to be paid the six months salaries withheld over the ongoing strike, saying it is meant to be the penalty for their needless action.

The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu stated this when he appeared at the ministerial briefing organized by the Presidential Communication Team, at the presidential villa, Abuja.

Mallam Adamu flanked by the Minister of State, Goodluck Opia explained that not paying the backlog will deter others who may contemplate strike in future.

He said that the three university based unions that are on strike have accepted to call off the strike in the next one week except ASUU that has remained adamant insisting that its members should be paid the five months that their salary was stopped.

He said the strike by the university-based unions came despite the Trillions of naira expended on education by the present administration directly as well as by agencies such as TEFFUND and UBEC.

He stated that government rejected ASUU’s demand to be paid the salary backlog because it believes that there has to be penalties for their action.

He, however, noted that ASUU had begun consultations with their members to determine whether to call off their strike as well.

Adamu informed that the University Perculiar Personnel and Payroll System, U3PS, and the the University Transparency Accountability Solution, UTAS, outscored the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System, IPPIS, during the integrity tests conducted by NITDA, affiming that ASUU ‘s peculiarities will be accommodated in whatever platform that may me adopted.

He further said that currently, the IPPIS has been made to accommodate the issue of sabbatical for lecturers.

He also debunked the report that UTAS had not been approved by government as the payment platform for University teachers.

He said that the government has proposed a new salary to the unions which he said the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian University, SSANU, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions, NASU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, have accepted in principle.

He, however commended the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics for calling off its own strike.

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