ASUU Warns Of Fresh Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has threatened to go on strike again over what it described as the ‘blatant’ refusal of the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris to pay the salaries and remit check-off dues of over 1000 staff for 13 months.

The chairman of the University of Jos, chapter of the ASUU, Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, who disclosed this in a press statement on Saturday, further accused the AGF of bad faith in insisting that members register for the IPPIS in Abuja.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the university lecturers called off a year long strike over the IPPIS debacle only recently.

The ASUU chairman in lamenting what he alleged as the indiscretions of the He lamented that, “despite the directive given by Mr president to pay the salaries of all lecturers, the AGF has refused to pay their salaries ranging from four to thirteen months respectively. Many of our members in the University of Jos and across the country have not been paid salaries from February 2020 to date.”

He said by this act, the AGF has completely violated the terms of the agreement signed between our “union and the FGN.”

According to him, “Mr. Ahmed Idris, from all intent and purposes, is bent on withholding the salaries of over 1,000 members of ASUU spread across the country with more than 100 of such lecturers being members of our Branch in University of Jos.”

Maigoro added that, “more worrisome is the fact that while the AGF is refusing to pay these salaries, his staff in the OAGF are busy calling the affected lecturers and insisting they have to register with IPPIS before they are paid; some are even asked to forfeit a part of their salaries in order to be paid. So it is very clear that this is a deliberate act on the part of the AGF and his staff,” the ASUU chief said.

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