The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) Saturday instructed its
members to shut the classroom doors against their students from
tomorrow, saying there is no going back on the strike it called, seeing
that the Federal is toying with the demand of the union.
National President of the union, Comrade Chibuzor Asumogha, who spoke
with THISDAY, said “it is true that we met with the Minister of
Education on Friday, but there are certain things we discussed and
agreed on, which he has not done, so we’re going ahead with the strike.”
Throwing further light on the matter, the National Publicity Secretary
of the union, Comrade Chirman Clement Selchum, said the meeting with the
interim Education Minister, Honourable Nyeson Wike, and his Labour
Ministry counterpart, Hon Emeka Wogu, ended on Friday evening with the
agreement that Wike should go back and announce the list of members of
the Needs Assessment of Polytechnics, which he said the Federal
Government had already approved and constituted, and also to release the
white paper of visitation to Federal Polytechnics, which, he said, is
already being worked on.
“But the minister went back, called the press and told them a different
thing from what was agreed upon at the meeting, “ he said, adding
“Wike also went ahead to tell the public that the strike will therefore
not go ahead, “ querying whether it was the Minister that should tell
the union members on whether or not they were going ahead with the
strike.
Chirman reiterated that “for the avoidance of doubt, the union is going
ahead with the strike action until all its demands have been meet by
the government,” lamenting that government seems not to be sincere with
its dealing with the union.
He added that “government has not even explained to us where it will
get the fund for the circular for the CONTISS 15 that it has released,
because NBTE said it has no money for that, since such arrangement was
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