‘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?
