The union also advocated the immediate reconstitution of
governing councils for federal and state-owned polytechnics and full
implementation of the provisions of the Federal Polytechnics Act as well as its
domestication in Adamawa, Sokoto, Niger and other non-compliant states.
The ASUP President, Mr. Anderson Ezeibe, while reading the
communiqué at the end of the National Executive Council meeting of the union
held in Katsina Friday, said the strike became necessary following the
inability of government to implement agreements reached with the union.
He listed the issues in contention to include failure to
implement the 2014 NEEDS Assessment Report on government-owned polytechnics and
the non-implementation of 65 years retirement age for academic staff in some
state-owned polytechnics.
Other outstanding issues, according to Ezeibe, included the
non-payment of promotion arrears in federal polytechnics and non-payment of
annual increments in some states of the federation.
He said: “In view of the unresolved issues in our previous
communications and after extensive deliberations, the union resolved to
withdraw the services of its members across the nation in a comprehensive
industrial action from the 6th of April, 2021.
“The industrial action is to draw the attention of the
government on the need to release the 10 months arrears of the new minimum wage
owed our members in federal polytechnics and the implementation of same in
states yet to implement the new minimum wage.
“Release owned staff salaries in Abia, Ogun, Osun, Benue,
Plateau, Edo and Cross Rives States and implement full salary payments in
Sokoto, Kaduna, Adamawa and other institutions with such reports.”
He urged government to, as a matter of urgency, withdraw
what he termed a letter containing spurious, incoherent and unsubstantiated
claims of pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) tax liabilities in 19 federal polytechnics
across the country.
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