No-Work-No-Pay Rule Stands, ASUU Should Take Lost Salary As Sacrifice – Education Minister, Adamu

The Federal Government will not rescind the no-work-no pay rule for members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the lecturers should consider the seventh months lost salary as sacrifice for their pursuit of a better education system, education minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu said on Wednesday evening.

Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Adamu also said that no government in the history of Nigeria can match the legacy of greater access to university education as has been provided by the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Mallam Adamu who spoke with Seun Okinbaloye of Channels Television said that even if the reverse of the no work no pay policy could woo the lecturers, he said that it is a government policy which will not be reversed. He thus asked the lecturers to consider the lost seven months salaries as their sacrifice to the struggle for a better education system.

“Unions in Nigeria like unions elsewhere try to save from their check-off in order to support those who are going without salary. The Federal Government has taken a position that it will not pay anybody whoever goes on strike,” the minister said.

Told that that would mean the loss of seven months of pay, the minister echoed “that is if they call of the strike today,” meaning that the sacrifice in terms of lost salary could surpass seven months that the government is insisting it would not pay.

Asked if the policy of the lost salary as a sacrifice was was not punitive on ASUU and the lecturers, Adamu said:

“When they say that there is … to sacrifice there is also a price to pay for it if you believe in what you are standing up for. I don’t think government is going out to punish anybody especially as it is something you already knew in advance.

Adamu who said he felt pained by the ASUU strike, however, affirmed that the Buhari administration has built a strong legacy in the education sector through what he described as the increased access.

He said that no administration could compare with the Buhari administration in opening access to universities in the country.

“There is no government in the recent past that has made access to university or higher education available to Nigerians like the Buhari administration and I believe this is one of his biggest legacies.”

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