STRIKE: ASUP Says FG is Insensitive

There seem to be no end in sight in the present industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) to press home their demands with the body describing the government as being insensitive to the plight of polytechnic education in the country.

Arising from its 74th National Executive Council Meeting at the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra State, the polytechnic lecturers resolved to engage the government further until their demands were met especially with what the body described as insensitivity on the part of government.

The National President of ASUP, Comrade Chibuzor Asomugha, in his speech recalled some of the reasons for the industrial action after the expiration of the 21-day ultimatum that expired on April 22 and the subsequent one-week warning strike that dovetailed into an indefinite strike on April 29.

According to him, some of the demands are – the need for constitution of the Governing Councils of Federal Polytechnics; the migration of the lower cadres on the CONTISS 15 salary scale; the release of the White Paper on the Visitations to Federal Polytechnics; the need for the commencement of the Needs Assessment of Nigerian Polytechnics and the worrisome state of state owned polytechnics in the country.