Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, have concluded their meeting at the Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Ogun state with an appeal to the Federal Government to honour the agreements signed with the union in the 2021 Memoradum of Action, MoA.
Addressing newsmen after the meeting, the National President of ASUP, Mr. Anderson Ezeibe lamented that the Federal government had failed to honour the agreements, almost a year after signing the MoA with the union.
Mr Ezeibe said the two – weeks strike currently embarked on by members of the union was to signal the first layer of their protest against what he described as the lack of commitment to improving the education sector.
The national president of ASUP urged members to be prepared for more industrial actions to call the attention of the Nigerian government and the public to what he described as the lack of responsibility displayed by the agencies and functionaries of the government involved in handling the matter.
He pointed out that the reconstitution of governing councils, setting up of visitation panels and resolution of the “pay as you earn tax” issue had been treated in partial fulfilment of the agreement while the release of minimum wage arrears, release of revitalization funds and recall of victimized members were among the outstanding issues on the Memorandum of Agreement.
Olusegun Folarin
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