ASUU Threatens To Declare ‘No Pay No Work’ Over Unpaid Salaries
Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) yesterday alerted Nigerians about a fresh crisis which would surpass all previous ones in the nation's universities.
It therefore called on the stakeholders and well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the federal government to pay its members across the country their withheld eight months salaries.
The chairman of ASUU, University of Ilorin branch,
Prof Moyosore Ajao, raised the alarm at a special congress of the local branch held at the university's main auditorium.
Moyosore's speech was read by the secretary of the union, Dr AbdulGaniyu Olatunji.
The lecturers had staged a solidarity rally within the university's campus before retiring to the auditorium where they addressed newsmen on: " Casualisation of Intellectual Workers In Nigeria: Prelude To Our Response".
Ajao said, "Gentlemen of the press, let me assure you that our union is resolved to continue to call the attention of the government to its responsibilities despite the obnoxious treatment being meted out to us by the government. To this effect, though we have resumed work in our university, the government's ignoble stance of withholding our eight months’ salaries, which is based on its ill- advised policy of ‘No work, No Pay’ is set to trigger fresh crises.
"In the coming days, the union would respond by considering invoking the ‘No Pay, No work’ policy and would abandon the works that have accumulated for those periods which the government has falsely claimed, through Chris Ngige, that our members have not worked.
"It is pertinent to note that, before any industrial action, the union would have given a series of warnings. Therefore, Nigerian stakeholders should understand that not to heed the warning of the union is to risk unpleasant consequences."