Abuja—NON-Academic
Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, has vowed not to
resume work until the Federal Government settled the N9 billion arrears owed
its members.
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The
Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the three non-teaching staff unions in the
universities, comprising NASU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian
Universities, SSANU and National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT,
had embarked on strike last December over non-payment of Earned Allowances,
among other things.
Speaking,
yesterday, in Abuja, General Secretary of NASU, Mr Peter Adeyemi, said the
union would sustain the on-going strike in research and development
institutions across the country.
Adeyemi
said the union would do anything possible, but within the law, to ensure that
government met their demand, including staging a protest at National Assembly.
He blamed the current strike in research institutes on the non-implementation
of the 2010 agreement by the Federal Government.
He
said: “The non-implementation of the agreement we reached with the Federal
Government in 2010 is the reason we decided to go into this action. It has got
to a stage where we have to take our collective destinies in our own hands.
“It
is unfortunate that we are in a country where the government is paying lip
service to research and development. Developed economies of the world focus
more on research for economic breakthroughs because there is no country that
can develop without research. Therefore, our research institutes would be shut
down until our demands are fully met.”
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| Members of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, at a recent rally in Lagos. |
Adeyemi
stated that the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbe, has acknowledged that
the protesting workers, indeed, had a genuine case. He said:“The Federal
Government has acknowledged that we have a legitimate case and that it is
government that is not doing what it ought to do.
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‘’The
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, confirmed to us at a
meeting we held with him on December 7, 2017, that the demands of the Joint
Action Committee of Research Institutes are legitimate and that he and his team
are going to raise an appropriate request for the needed resources to be made
available for our members to be paid the 12 months arrears that have been
outstanding since 2010.”
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Vanguardnews
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