{"id":8338,"date":"2013-08-14T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/fresh-strike-looms-in-polytechnics-asup\/"},"modified":"2013-08-14T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T12:40:03","slug":"fresh-strike-looms-in-polytechnics-asup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/fresh-strike-looms-in-polytechnics-asup\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh strike looms in polytechnics \u2013 ASUP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Polytechnics in country may be gearing for a fresh round of strikes after the federal government failed to address a \u201csingle thing\u201d in their agreement, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a mass protest organised in Lagos to call government\u2019s attention to the poor state of public education, Chibuzo Asomugha, stated that a fresh strike is inevitable.
\u201cThe time we gave after the suspension of the strike will expire next week and up till now government has not done any single thing in the agreement,\u201d Mr. Asomugha, ASUP\u2019s National President, told PREMIUM TIMES.
\u201cWe joined this protest because we want to identify with the spirit of the Nigerian people to prevent the decay in the education sector,\u201d he added.
Last month, ASUP suspended its nearly three month old strike after the intervention of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Education.
The committee had said that it would liaise with the relevant government ministries, agencies, and parastatals with a view to tackling all the union\u2019s demands.
ASUP had embarked on a nationwide industrial action on April 29, 2013, to force government to carry out a comprehensive overhaul of polytechnics across Nigeria.
Some of the union\u2019s concerns include the failure to constitute Governing Councils of federal polytechnics; snail speed of works on the amendment of the Federal Polytechnics Act\/Scheme of Service; and the worrisome state of State owned polytechnics in the country.
Other concerns are the refusal of most state governments to implement the approved salary packages (CONPCASS) for their polytechnics, and the 65 years retirement age; as well as the continued appointment of unqualified persons as Rectors and Provosts of Polytechnics, Monotechnics, and Colleges of Technologies by some state governments, among others.
The union had given the government representatives one month to accede to its demands.
The ASUP boss accused the federal government of insensitivity because \u201cthey do not have their children in the polytechnics.\u201d
\u201cGovernment should stop paying lip service to public education. The closer you get to this people in government, the more you lose hope,\u201d Mr. Asomugha said.<\/p>\n

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