ASUU threatens fresh strike, says No work, No Pay
Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) has alerted Nigerians about a new crisis it claimed would surpass all previous ones in Nigerian universities.
To this end, ASUU sought the intervention of stakeholders and well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the federal government to pay members across the country their withheld eight months’ salaries.
The chairman of ASUU, University of Ilorin branch, Prof Moyosore Ajao, raised the alarm at an extraordinary congress of the local branch held at the university’s main auditorium.
The university’s lecturers had staged a solidarity rally within the campus before retiring to the auditorium. They addressed the newsmen on “Casualisation of Intellectual Workers In Nigeria: Prelude To Our Response”.
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He said, “Though we have resumed work in our university, the government’s ignoble stance of withholding our eight months’ salaries based on its ill-advised policy of ‘No work, No Pay’ is set to trigger a new crisis.
“In the coming days, the union would respond by considering to invoke the ‘No Pay, No work’ policy and would abandon the works that have accumulated for those period which government has falsely claimed, through Chris Ngige, that our members have not worked.”
He said members of the public are “put on notice again that a new crisis, which would surpass all previous ones, is looming in Nigerian universities, saying the union members would not continue to do free work.
He added, “Our union and its members should not be held responsible for the consequences that its actions, in response to the crude wickedness of the Nigerian state, would have on all stakeholders.
“As a law-abiding union, we have heeded the court’s directive, which directed that we resume our duty posts while the substantive matter is being heard.
He said, “after the resumption, the government decided that half of the salaries be paid to our members for October 2022. This development is unacceptable and would be resisted by our union.
