JUST IN: Buhari Told To Sack Three Ministers (FULL LIST)

JUST IN: Buhari Told To Sack Three Ministers (FULL LIST)

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) section at Federal University Lokoja (FUL) has called for the dismissal of Festus Keyamo, Adamu Adamu, and Dr. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Productivity, for causing a bottleneck in the work process.

Keyamo is the Minister of State for Labor and Productivity and the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

This statement was made by the union on Tuesday during a rally of support at the university’s Adankolo campus. It declared yesterday a lecture-free day in accordance with a directive from its parent body.

FUL academics called an emergency congress before staging a placarded, nonviolent protest across campus.

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Among the placards were: ‘Say no to lecturers being casualized,’ ‘Ngige must go, Okija shrine awaits you,’ ‘Pay our eight months salary,’ ‘Stop playing politics with our education,’ and ‘We are not casual workers.’

Dr. Joshua Silas, the union’s chairman, told journalists after the protest that the Federal Government, as represented by the three ministers, had made it clear that it was out to destroy public universities.

“We are calling on the President to remove the ministers before they completely destroy our educational system. They want to turn university lecturers to casual workers. This government wants to destroy public institutions,” he stated.

According to Silas, the National Executive Council of ASUU will decide whether or not to resume the strike, and that they were only raising awareness of how Ngige, Keyamo, and Adamu were destroying the educational system.

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“We also want to tell the public that we should not be blamed when we decide on the next line of action. This government wants to destroy education,” he added.

In the same vein, members of the union in the University of Ilorin branch, including the former ASUU Chairman of the university and a council member of the union, Professor Rasheed Adeoye, and the Secretary of the union in the university, Dr. Olatunji Abdulganiyu, described the government’s alleged payment of half salaries to union members for October as unacceptable, vowing to fight it.

“As a law-abiding union, we have heeded the directive of the court which directed that we resume duty while the substantive matter is being heard,” said Moyosore Ajao, the varsity’s ASUU chairman.

“However, after resumption from strike, to our utmost dismay, the government decided that half salaries be paid to our members for the month of October 2022. This development is unacceptable and would be resisted by our union.

“The fact is that academics are not casual workers. Only casual workers receive pay pro-rate. The law of the land is also clear on this. Indeed, the National Industrial Court made it clear in a landmark judgment in 2020 that tenured staff cannot be paid pro-rata.

“It is very sad that the Minister of Labour is ignorant of the fact that academic staff engage in so many activities aside teaching duties. In fact, the primary duty of an academic staff is research, and there are other activities that have continued to engage their attention irrespective of strike or whether school is in session or not.”

ASUU and the government have been at odds over the government’s decision to pay members half of their salaries after the union’s eight-month strike ended.

The federal government had insisted that union members not be paid during the strike, citing its “no work, no pay” policy.

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