By Esosa Omorogbe.
The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) in Nigeria has commenced a nationwide indefinite strike action to drive home it's demands.
Addressing Newsmen in Abuja, ASUP's National President, Anderson Ezeibe said "members of the union have vowed to shut down the Nigerian Polytechnics till the Federal Government meets our demands.
According to Anderson Ezeibe, "the union said it's action followed the failure of government to address the sorry state of polytechnics and monotechnics as well as the expiration of the ultimatum issued since March 2020.
This ASUP strike action is coming less than a week after Resident Doctors embarked on a nationwide strike over non-payment of allowances and other related issues.
The ASUP President, said academic activities have been shut down in all the polytechnics and like institutions nationwide with effect from 12am, April 6.
According to him, the union’s demands were communicated to the ministries of education, labour and others as well as to state governors but nothing was done about them.
Ezeibe listed the lecturers’ grievances to include non-implementation of 2014 NEEDS Report and non-release of revitalization fund to the sector despite assurances since 2017.
He said, “Our grievances also include the non-reconstitution of governing councils in federal polytechnics and many state-owned institutions leading to the disruption of governance and administrative processes in the institutions since May, 2020.
“This has also undermined the renegotiation of the union’s 2010 agreement with the government which was unilaterally suspended by the government for over two years now.”
Recall that the FG had on Monday invited officials of the Union to an emergency meeting over its proposed strike.
According to a statement issued on Monday by Ben Bem Goong, spokesperson for the ministry of education, onbehalf of the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, the meeting was to address the issues raised by ASUP in a bid to avert the planned strike.
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