February 10, 2025

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ASUU, SSANU threaten another strike

ASUU, SSANU threaten another strike
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By Okwo romeon

The nation universities may be thrown into another strike again as members of the Academic Staff Union Of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) warned they will resume strike over alleged refusal of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) to pay salaries and remit check-off dues of about 1000 of it members for the last 13 months.

The Chairman of University of Jos branch of ASUU, Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, accused the AGF of allegedly causing commotion between the union and Federal Government which the unionist felt the action may push their members to engage in another round of strike.

According to ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke,despite the promise to the union by Federal government to clear all outstanding salaries before December 31, 2020, government is still owing members in many of the branches between two to 16 months salaries.

According ASUU president,withholding members’ salaries is a ploy to force them to enroll for Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) which their last agreement with the government had addressed.

He said: “There are lecturers that are paid for few months, after one or two months, they stopped paying them, and all sorts of funny things. We have met with the minister of labour and employment; we even cascaded it to the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President, but the office of the AGF seems to be adamant on punishing members.

On what come on next, the ASUU scribe said,there are rules for embarking on strike and the union will follow that rules.”

Asked if the union had made any attempt to meet with officials from the office of the AGF, Osodeke said: “We have our principle of engagement with government. The agreement we reached in December was brokered by the Minister of Labour and Employment, and we also agreed to meet from time to time to look at the issues. We met in May and raised all these issues with the Accountant-General’s Office present at the meeting.

“They tried to deny the fact that some of our members are being owed. And we were able to prove with available data that they were lying and they accepted and agreed to implement. If any of our members enroll in IPPIS today, officials from the office of the AGF will pay you the next day, which means that what they are doing is deliberate he concluded.

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