Skip to main content

PAY WITHHELD SALARIES OR RISK SCUTTLED ACADEMIC SESSION, ASUU WARNS FG

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Ago-Iwoye, yesterday, took to the street calling on the federal government to pay the withheld salaries of their counterparts in the federal universities.

The lecturers, who were led by the branch Chairman, Dr. Joel Okewale, marched from the mini-campus of the institution in Ago-Iwoye town to the entrance gate, deplored what they described as “brazen show of disdain for education and the intelligentsia” by the federal government.

They expressed worries that the government had stepped up its anti- people and oppressive stance by criminalizing strike action and implementing its ‘no-work-no-pay’ on ASUU.

Okewale who addressed the rally, said government’s self-determined policy of ‘no-work-no-pay’ as well as criminalization of strike action, is alien to the university system.

He said the union had taken it as part of federal government’s imposed punishment on ASUU members for daring to challenge it for proper funding of education and fulfil its promise to ASUU and the Nigerian children.

He added that they would not be forced to take the ‘no-pay-no-work’ decision and still be expected to complete the 2020/21 academic session, which the the government opted not to pay for.

He recalled that ASUU suspended its 8-month old strike forced on her by the refusal of government to honour the spirit and letters of the 2009 Agreement and the memoranda thereto, stressing that it is also no longer in contention that government had  failed to resolve the matter of renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability solution (UTAS), to replace the discredited and irredeemably deficient Integrated Payroll and Personnel information System (IPPIS), release of White Papers on the Visitation to Federal Universities, release of Revitalization Funds, and stoppage of Proliferation of State Universities among others.

He said, “we would not be forced to take the ‘no-pay-no-work’ decision and still be expected to complete the 2020/21 session, which government opted not to pay for.

“We would not add to the punishment being handed down to the Nigerian children by government’s refusal to adequately educate them in order to be fully prepared for the challenges of nation building”.

“Our union finds it most uncharitable and an utter betrayal of the Nigerian nation, going by the taxpayers’ money spent on the education of this crop of politicians and the entire ruling class that they represent”.

“We commiserate with the Labour Minister, Chris Ngige, who turned from a mediator to a prosecutor just to be the servile face of the ruling elite in their efforts to keep the Nigerian masses uneducated or poorly educated and perpetually enslaved in their own country”.

“We also equally commiserate with his collaborators in and outside government for their different roles in this struggle.

“Posterity would fish all of them out for their excrescences in no distant future. Nonetheless, our union, ASUU, remains committed to the ongoing struggle against the casualization of academic appointments.

“We would not relent until the poor budgetary expenditure to education is reversed and our universities are put on the pedestal for global reckoning”.

“We are also committed to the struggle to liberate our country from the grip of neo-liberal organizations and their opportunistic collaborators in the country.

“We also use the opportunity to call on federal and state governments to review their present poor funding of education and invest in our children for the sake of our country,” Okewale said.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

KWARA GOVT DIRECTS REOPENING COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ILORIN

Kwara State Government has directed the re-opening of the College of Education Ilorin following five weeks of shutdown.The closure of the school followed a recent rampage and destruction of some public facilities by some students. We hereby announce the reopening of the school with immediate effect. The approval to reopen the school came after the government elicited the cooperation of the school management and students Union’s leadership on the need to justify the confidence reposed in them, maintain peace and prevent future damage to public facilities under whatever guise,” Commissioner for Tertiary Education Dr Alabi Afees Abolore said in a statement on Sunday.While it has accepted the plea by the school’s Governing Council, the school management, students and other stakeholders to reopen the school, the government will not tolerate such unruly behaviour in the future. We do not accept any attempt by anyone to disrupt public peace and hurt other members of the public in ...
Post a Comment
Read more

TRINITY POLYTECHNIC RELEASES 2022 /2023 ADMISSION LIST

This is to inform all the candidates that applied for admission into the Trinity Polytechnic Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, ND programmes during the 2022/2023 academic session that they can now check their admission status. How to Check Trinity Polytechnic Admission List Currently, the Trinity Polytechnic prospective students can only access their admission status on the JAMB admission status checking portal by following the procedure outlined below: To access your Trinity Polytechnic admission status, go to the JAMB portal at https://efacility.jamb.gov.ng/. Login to your Jamb profile with your username and password. Scroll down, then locate and click the Check Admission Status tab. Select your Exam year and enter your registration number in the required column. Finally, click on Check Admission Status to access your Trinity Polytechnic admission status. Candidates not yet admitted should note that admission is in progress and regularly check the JAMB site for their admission status...
Post a Comment
Read more

ASUU TO RESPOND TO FG’S STANCE ON SALARY, OTHERS AT NEC MEETING

The executive members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), led by its President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, is scheduled to meet and discuss the inability of the Federal Government to meet their demands.  ASUU NEC is also expected to deliberate on the half salary paid to its members by the Federal Government last month. The meeting is expected to cause palpable tension among university communities.  The meeting will take place at the union’s headquarters at the permanent site of the University of Abuja campus. The union’s leadership will address the government’s decision and discuss their potential responses to the development.  ASUU President, who disclosed this in an interview with The Guardian, said the Federal Government was yet to meet any of the union’s demands.  However, Osodeke steadfastly declined to disclose the meeting’s date, saying: “ I won’t say in advance when the meeting will take place. We are having a private meeting and will...
Post a Comment
Read more