The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council in response to the Federal Government’s decision to pay lecturers half their salaries.
The meeting date has not yet been set, according to The Punch.
The lecturers had filed a complaint against the government for not paying them their full salaries.
ASUU went on strike on Monday, February 14, 2022, to press home demands from the government.
Following a series of meetings between union members and the Federal Government, ASUU suspended its strike and directed members to return to work eight months later.
The strike was suspended just days after a court of appeals ordered the union to call it off.
The union’s president, Emmanuel Osodeke, stated that the eight-month-long strike was called off due to a court order.
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He said, “The issues have not been fully resolved and no agreement has been signed. So, we are resuming because we are a law-abiding body and we don’t want to break the law. We are also hoping that the intervention of the speaker, as promised by him, will resolve these problems in a very short time”.
However, at the end of October, the lecturers received half of their monthly pay.
Confirming the half salary they received, Osodeke said, “Half salaries were paid, no reasons were given whatsoever. We learnt that Ngige wrote the office of the Accountant General and Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system and told them to only pay us for the period when we called off the strike.
“We heard there was a letter to that effect but we haven’t gotten it yet. We are going to summon a meeting.”
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has not responded to the lecturers’ allegations.
