Polytechnic Lecturers To Join ASUU Strike Dec 12

The Academic Staff Union Of Polytechnics (ASUP) has announced that it will embark on a nationwide strike on Wednesday, 12 of December, 2018.

The president of ASUP, Usman Dutse, who revealed this in an interview with journalists, said that the strike has become imminent because the Federal Government failed to meet the demands of polytechnics lecturers.

Dutse said the proposed strike will be total and indefinite, adding that the decision was made at the 93rd National Executive Council Meeting which held in Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

“Government has failed to implement and fulfill agreements it has reached with the union and contained in the memorandum of Understanding signed,” Dutse stated.

“The issue of funding of the Institutions has always been a major concern. The Government over the years have always been breaking their promises. There are other reasons bothering on the roles of the State Government and the National Assembly.

“The Institutions are not funded. The states are even worse because state governments just establish schools without actually funding those schools, so we don’t have infrastructure in place to aid learning. The strike we embarked upon was to make sure there was a review on the act on the establishment of Polytechnics in countries” he added

“We hope that the strike would make the Government look into improving the condition of service and the payment of additional allowances government owed Polytechnics Lecturers” he added.

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been on strike for three weeks over the poor funding of Federal Universities in the country.