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Owing to the non- payment of salaries and alleged victimisation of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities , the body has threatened to resume its suspended strike.
In a statement on Sunday, by the chairman , University of Ibadan branch of ASUU , Prof . Ayo Akinwole , asked Nigerians to blame the Federal Government if universities again go under lock.
Akinwole who lamented that despite agreeing to ASUU ’ s condition before the strike was suspended on December 24 , 2020 , many lecturers are still being owed salaries of between two and 10 months.
ASUU had suspended its nine – month strike following a conditional agreement between it and the FG .
However , within two weeks of the conditional suspension of the nine -month strike embarked upon by ASUU , the Federal Government reportedly failed to fulfill the agreements .
As of December 31 , 2020 , the Federal Government was learnt to have failed to fulfil three agreements reached with the union .
Among the agreements FG failed to fulfil was the payment of the lecturers six months salaries , including December 2020 salaries , owed lecturers .
While over 100 lecturers were said not to receive payments for the two months at the University of Ibadan , lecturers in some universities received nothing since February 2020.
According to ASUU chairman , “While ASUU as a union , and her members as individuals in various branches have remained faithful to this agreement by returning to classes and performing their respective duties, the Federal Government , true to type , has reneged on its part .
“ Contrary to FGN affirmation of its commitment to pay all withheld salaries of ASUU members who have not enrolled in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information system ( IPPIS ) , three months after the suspension of Strike, thousands of ASUU members across various branch are still being owed salaries .
“Instead of deploying the University Transparency and Accountability Solution ( UTAS ) software developed by ASUU , which has been adjudged effective for payment of salaries , some of our members are still being denied their salaries and others are being coerced by agents of the government to register on the repressive IPPIS for payment of salaries .
“The Union ASUU and her members are made to suffer from all the aforementioned attacks by the federal government while the public expects our members , some of who now live on the charity of family members and colleagues for survival to use their personal resources to discharge their duties diligently in the universities .
“These harsh conditions would have terrible consequences on public tertiary education in Nigeria and when push eventually comes to shove , as it definitely will in no distant future , the Nigerian public should accordingly blame the Federal Government for its insincerity.
“Blame the federal government of Nigeria if the universities are shut down again .”
Fatimah Oyesanmi
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