ASUP STRIKE UPDATE:
‘Govt not serious in resolving ASUP strike. The
Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) yesterday accused the
President Goodluck Jonathan administration of ‘insensitivity’ towards
resolving the over seven months strike.
ASUP National President, Dr. Chibuzor Asomugha said government was not serious in calling off the strike.
Speaking in Abuja on a Raypower Radio programme, Political Platform, he
vowed that the strike would continue if government did not fulfil its promise.
Asomugha said after the January 21 meeting with the Supervising
Minister for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, government promised to get back
to the union on further development, adding that nothing had been done.
Said he: “The insensitivity on the part of government is acute to the
point of destroying the system irrevocably. We are saying if government
can resolve the four issues it chooses by itself, we can get the system
running again.
“We had made overtures. The next day after the NEC,
we conveyed NEC’s decision to government. We expect government to have
looked at that matter and if government is serious about the situation,
government would have said, okay, now this is your stand on it, come let
us talk about it. But government has not said anything.
“NEC has
reviewed the progress we have made so far with government and it has
considered that government has not shown enough commitment. Government
has not given ASUP anything concrete. The only thing we had to work with
was the word of the minister, not supported by any paper or document,
not supported by any authorisation.
“The paper government gave us
was a proposal. Government gave us the paper to convey this proposal to
our NEC. It wasn’t an affirmation of government’s commitment to pay. We
also reminded the minister that the other issues were pending. We asked
questions about the issues, which government up till now has refused to
address.” Guys wat shul we do?
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