Colleges of education lecturers declare nationwide strike

0
348

Adefioye Iyunade

The College of Education Academic Staff Union has directed its members nationwide to immediately withdraw their Services today (Thursday).

- Advertisement -

The union President, Nuhu Ogirima, who made this known on  Thursday during a press conference in Abuja, accused the Federal Government of failing to provide the outstanding N441bn from the NEEDS Assessment of the Federal Colleges of Education.

- Advertisement -

He said, “It is quite evident that the union’s agitation is an existential struggle geared towards revitalisation of the COE system.

- Advertisement -

READ ALSO: It’s time to run Nigeria’s tertiary institutions as business ventures

“As the main entity for the training of  teachers and managers of the foundation level of the nation’s education system, the sustained neglect of COEs portends a grave implication for the development of the entire educational system.

“So, the union hereby formally declares that all options are open for an industrial action against the Federal Government and some notorious state governments.

-Advertisement-


“The public should take notice that the NEC shall reconvene shortly to unveil the series of measures that the union shall take towards bailing the COE system from the doldrums and further decadence inherent in the wanton neglect by the government.”

According to him, several efforts through correspondences to get the Federal Government to attend to the demands of the colleges of education in Nigeria failed to yield results.

The COEASU President also alleged that the Federal Government had been manipulating academic staff salary with the imposition of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System; unilateral stoppage of payment of academic staff on sabbatical leave; imposition of non-negotiated Personal Income Tax and over-deduction of payable amount of Contributory Pension Scheme.

 

We do everything possible to supply quality news and information to all our valuable readers day in, day out and we are committed to keep doing this. Your kind donation will help our continuous research efforts.

-Advertisement-

-Want to get the news as it breaks?-

- Advertisement -