* Calls nationwide Congress to take a decision
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may once again be preparing for another showdown with the Federal government after its members got paid for only 18 days in October.
The situation is coming barely two weeks after the union called -off its eight-month-old industrial action.
The union called off the strike on October 14, 2022, after the intervention by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and in compliance with a court ruling ordering the lecturers to return to the classroom.
Indeed the government had insisted on implementing the ‘No Work, No Pay’ policy for the period the university workers were away from their duty posts.
However, Gbajabiamila waded into the imbroglio between the Union and the government after all negotiations had broken down.
Had assured the lecturers that they would get whatever is due them accordingly.
However, things took a new turn on Thursday when feelers came in that the government failed to keep to its word, as ASUU members were paid half month salary.
A senior member of the ASUU at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, confirmed the development on Thursday.
He noted that the government only paid half salary for the month of October.
“The much I know, those who have called me said they were paid only for eighteen days for the month of October,” he said.
Another academic staff member added: “Yes, I only received 18 working days salary, that’s what they paid me; my colleague received the same.”
The UNILAG chapter of the union described the development as “insensitive and disheartening” on its Twitter page.
The UNILAG branch chairperson, Dele Ashiru wrote: “The leadership of the union at the national level has been duly informed about this unfortunate development and they are on top of the issue”.
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There were reports of selective and biased payment of lecturers’ salaries at the university, with some lecturers in the College of Public Health and Medicine receiving all their outstanding salaries.
Ngige had argued that those categories of workers did not participate in the Union’s strike.
To address the issue and come up with a plan, ASUU has called a nationwide Congress in its various branches on Tuesday next week to take a decision on the matter.