The industrial strike action would begin on Monday, May 16,
2022, according to the directive contained in a statement signed by the
national President of the union, Anderson U. Ezeibe, dated May 11, 2022, issued
after an emergency National Executive Council meeting of ASUP.
On Wednesday, the Chairman of ASUP, Federal Polytechnic
Offa, chapter, Dr. Atilola Moses Idowu, said, “we will comply fully with the
directive by the national body of the union.
“We are putting every logistics in place to ensure total compliance
with the warning strike as directed by the national President starting from
Monday next week.”
When asked if Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin will also join
the strike action, Dr Atilola said he was not sure because the State
government-owned institution “is not active presently.”
The National body of the union in a statement on Wednesday
by the national President explained that following exhaustive deliberations on
the update concerning their demands, “the emergency meeting of the union’s
National Executive Council, NEC, has resolved that members should withdraw
their services in a two-week industrial action effective from Monday, May 16,
2022.”
The union urged the public to prevail on the Federal
government to do the needful within the period of the strike to avoid an
indefinite shutdown of the sector.
The union traced the crisis between the body and the Federal
government to April 16, 2021, when it declared an industrial action but
suspended it on June 10, 2021, following the signing of the Memorandum of
Action, MoA, with the government containing a clear path to sustainable
resolution on the issues in dispute with timelines attached to each of the
items in dispute.
Items in dispute include non release of the approved
revitalisation fund for the sector as approved. The sum of N15b is yet to be
released 11 months after approval by the President.
Others are non release of arrears of the new national
minimum wage, with 11 months arrears owed to polytechnics yet to be released,
among others.
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