NASU Will Join ASUU Strike Next Week

AS strike embarked upon by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) in the nation’s tertiary
institutions enters its fourth month,
the Non-Academic Staff Union of
Educational and Associated
Institutions (NASU) has indicated its
resolve to embark on its own
indefinite strike next week.
Speaking at the National Executive
Council (NEC) meeting of the trade
union in Ilorin, the Kwara State
capital, on Tuesday, NASU’s general
secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi,
said members of the union had not
been paid for two months, despite
working to keep university system
running during the ongoing ASUU
strike.
“ NASU will commence its own strike
next week, because we have been
working and government has
refused to pay our salary. For us, it
does not make sense to continue to
keep the system running when we
are not being paid. The reason for
this is not known to us.
Government has not paid our salary
for August and today is September
24; they are owing us two months’
salary and there is no way we can
continue to do this work on empty
stomach, while they run round the
globe on full stomach,” he said.
The NASU’s general secretary, who
said no reason was adduced for
their non-payment, added that “ the
unfortunate thing is that they have
no explanation for non-payment of
our salary. That is enough patience
on our part, despite the fact that we
have our grouse before with the
Federal Government that things are
not running well.
“ However, we think as Nigerians
and parents, we don’t have to
unnecessarily ground the system,
but if you take this our maturity and
level-headedness to mean stupidity,
then, people who complain that we,
in the university system have ruined
the future of students by going on
too many strikes imposed on us by
government will have no reason not
to understand, if we go on our own
strike next week.”
Also speaking, the national president
of NASU, Mr Ladi Iliya, blamed the
National Assembly for fighting on
their political interest and future at
the expense of welfare of Nigerians.
The NASU president, who said the
National Assembly should have
deliberated on issue of persistent
insecurity and ASUU strike when it
resumed session, described the
attitude of the legislators as
shameful.
The labour leader decried issue of
corruption, which he said was now
an acceptable part of every
transaction in the country, both in
public and private sectors of the
economy, adding that high cost of
running the country today was a
result of the endemic scourge of
corrupt practices, which, he said had
long bedevilled the system.
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