Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has threatened to sack all the Kaduna State University (KASU) lecturers if they continue to observe the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, according to DAILY POST.
ASUU has been on strike since February over the failure of
the federal government to meet its demands.
Many attempts by the government to make the lecturers return
to the classrooms have not yielded results as of today.
Just on Monday, labour unions commenced solidarity protests
in some parts of the country with ASUU.
However, speaking on a radio programme in Kaduna on
Wednesday, El-Rufai told the lecturers to return to classrooms in order to
avoid having their positions declared vacant, adding that KASU lecturers had no
reason to join any strike.
According to him, ASUU had a problem with the federal
government, not the state government.
He said, “The Acting Vice Chancellor has assured me that
they will resume, but I have asked them to find out if they actually resumed
work, because I initially instructed that their salary be stopped. But I was
later told they didn’t join the strike, so I asked that it should be
investigated and those that collected salary and joined the strike will be
asked to refund the salary.
“This is because Nigeria’s law says ‘no work, no pay’. This
is the law. So whoever joined the strike will not be paid a salary. We have
been telling the KASU lecturers that they have no problem with the State
government. ASUU’s problem is with the Federal government. Therefore, why will
our staff who have no problems with us join the strike?
“If this continues, I will wake up one day to sack them all,
I swear to God. We will sack them all and declare their positions vacant on the
pages of newspapers.
They once did the same thing and we gave them warning, now
they repeated it. I’m only waiting to receive the report from the commissioner
for education. I swear to God, we will sack all those that joined the strike if
they refuse to resume work.”
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