The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), on Friday, threatened to shut down all the Polytechnics in the country if the Federal government fails to meet its demands.
The ASUP President, Comrade Anderson Ezeibe, disclosed this while addressing Journalists at the end of the Union’s 102 National Executive Council meeting in Yola the Adamawa State, where members of the Union displayed placards with various inscriptions to drive home their demands.
According to him, ASUP is set to resume its suspended industrial strike action by reconvening in a month’s time to make that decision.
Items under the union’s demands include; the non-release of the revitalization funds for the sector, non-release of arrears of the new minimum wage, and non-release of the reviewed nomination instruments for institutions and Managements as well as programmes accreditation among others.
Ezeibe said the suspension of the 61-day long industrial action on June 10, 2021, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the government, was only for a period of three months, and principally in consideration of appeals by students and parents.