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Adelani Adepegba, Abuja
The National Association of Academic Technologists has issued a 14-day strike notice to the Federal Government.
The university workers are protesting alleged disparity in sharing of the N40 billion earned allowances released to the four university unions.
They are also demanding the release of 50 per cent of the N71 billion accrued allowances being owed members of the union based on the 2009 agreement with the government.
The NAAT President, Ibeji Nwokoma, told journalists in Abuja on Saturday, that the association has written to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, informing him of their planned industrial action.
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Don’t use us as bait, ASUU warns
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By Adesina Wahab
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, or any other union should not use it as bait to get anything from the government.
ASUU, therefore, advised NAAT or any other staff union to fight their battles their ways.
The Chairman, University of Lagos, UNILAG chapter of ASUU, who is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the union, Dr. Dele Ashiru, stated this on Sunday while reacting to claims by NAAT expressing displeasure with the sharing arrangement of the N40 billion released by the Federal Government as Earned Academic Allowances for university workers.
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Experts observed that in the event the non-academic members of the university community decide to go on strike, they would make the agreement between ASUU and the government a wasted effort.
ASUU had since the return of democracy in 1999 expended four years on strike, an equivalent of one term for an elected president or governor.
Prof Biodun Ogunyemi
Under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the union had ‘wasted’ 58 weeks on strike, meaning they had been at home for about 15 months.
The union had spent four weeks in 2017 and 13 weeks in 2018; while 2020 witnessed the longest- 41 weeks and 3 days.
Parents and students who expressed joy over yesterday’s development called on ASUU and the federal government to respect the terms of the agreement that led to the suspension of the strike to avert another round of strike.
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