ASUP Strike will Continue Latest educational news reaching us today, is that the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has on Saturday instructed her members to commence strike from tomorrow, in which the staff union said that there is no going back on its words, seeing that the Federal is toying with the demand of the union. While speaking on this issue, the Union National President, Comrade Chibuzor Asumogha said this and we quote him “it is true that we met with the Minister of Education on Friday, but there are certain things we discussed and agreed on, which he has not done, so we’re going ahead with the strike.” However, the National Publicity Secretary of the Union, Comrade Chirman Clement Selchum, said in the meeting with the interim Education Minister, Honourable Nyeson Wike, and the Labour Ministry counterpart, Hon Emeka Wogu, ended on Friday evening with the agreement that Wike should go back and announce the list of members of the Needs Assessment of Polytechnics, which he said the Federal Government had already approved and constituted, and also to release the white paper of visitation to Federal Polytechnics, which, he said, is already being worked on. Also speaking on the issue, the National Publicity Secretary of the Union, Comrade Chirman Clement Selchum said this and we qoute him “But the minister went back, called the press and told them a different thing from what was agreed upon at the meeting,” The National Publicity Secretary of the Union, Comrade Chirman Clement Selchum also said this “Wike also went ahead to tell the public that the strike will therefore not go ahead, “querying whether it was the Minister that should tell the union members on whether or not they were going ahead with the strike. The Chairman did not hesitate to reiterated that “for the avoidance of doubt, ASUP is going ahead with the strike action until all its demands have been meet by the government,” lamenting that government seems not to be sincere with its dealing with the union. The Secretary also added that the Nigerian government has not even explained to the academic union where it will get the fund for the circular for the CONTISS 15 that it has released, because NBTE said it has no money for that, since such arrangement was not made in the budget.” We just hope that this union will stay take months to iron out it’s problems with the Government, just like Academic Staff Union of Universities (asuu)
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 21:31:17 +0000
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