Academic staff Union • Strike continue

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) embarked

on an indefinite strike in October, 2013 to press home its

demand for improvement in the condition of service and

infrastructure in government-owned polytechnics,

monotechnics and colleges of technology.

It also demands that the Federal Government should

remove dichotomy between HND and degree holders.

They also demanded the release of the White Paper on

the NEEDS assessment of polytechnics and review of the

Polytechnic Act by the National Assembly, among others.

The government has met some of the demands, including

inauguration of governing councils and setting up of the

NEEDS assessment committees , but however the

National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union

of Polytechnics (ASUP) has resolved to continue its nine

months old strike pending the outcome of his meeting

with the Senate Committee on Education on July 1.

The President of the union, Chibuzor Asumogha, said that

a meeting of the committee and some education

stakeholders scheduled for June 24 did not hold because

no government official came.

“That meeting was supposed to be held, resolution

reached and agreement signed.

“It was against the backdrop that we fixed the NEC

meeting so that, if we have the resolutions, we will come

here and suspend the strike.

“Incidentally, none of the government official came for

the meeting and because of that the meeting did not

hold,’’ he said.

“This is the position of the NEC; we are meeting again

next Tuesday,” he said. We have been compromising

since 2013. We have continued to agree to suspend the

strike but at each point government always bridged the

agreement,” he said.

He appealed to the parents and students to continue to be

patient and support the union to achieve it goals

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