Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) have given the Federal Government until Wednesday to implement an agreement it entered with them over four years ago, or they would down tools.
The lecturers, who last year suspended a strike that lasted almost one year on promises by then newly appointed education minister Ibrahim Shekarau, said none of the items on their list of demands have been attended to.
ASUP President, Comrade Chibuzor Asomugha told reporters after an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the union that the governing councils of federal polytechnic Oko, in Anambra State and that of Ado Ekiti in Ekiti State should be dissolved for creating avoidable problems in their institutions.
Some of their demands include what they termed the “continued discrimination” against polytechnic graduates both in the public service and the labour market in Nigeria, including the non-release of white paper on visitation to Federal polytechnics.
They are also protesting the non-implementation of CONTISS 15 migration for the lower cadres and its arrears as from 2009 when salary structure was approved.
They also decry the non-establishment of A National Polytechnic Commission and the “wrongful recognition” of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) as the regulatory body for polytechnics.
The lecturers also want more funding for polytechnics, appointment of competent people into governing councils and adequate funding of state polytechnics by their various owners.
Source: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sunday/index.php/news/19702-poly-lecturers-begin-indefinite-strike-wednesday
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