ASUU threatens strike over non payment of salaries

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), claims the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris has refused to pay the salaries and remittance of check-off dues of over 1000 staff for 13 months.

The union has therefore threatened to go on strike again following the actions of the AG.

In a press statement, the ASUU chairman, University of Jos, Dr. Lazarus Maigoro accused the AGF of bridging a gap between the federal government and the union. According to him, these actions by the AGF will lead to a strike action.

He therefore, called on the federal government to intervene in the matter so as not to prevent a closure of the immediate closure of universities in the country.

He bemoan the continue pressure from the AGF for lecturers to register with the IPPIS in Abuja, although the president had given the go ahead for payment of salaries.

He lamented that, “despite the directive given by Mr president to pay the salaries of all lecturers, the AGF has refused to pay their salaries ranging from four to thirteen months respectively. Many of our members in University of Jos and across the country have not been paid salaries from February 2020 to date.”

According to him, “Mr. Ahmed Idris, from all intent and purposes, is bent on withholding the salaries of over 1,000 members of ASUU spread across the country with more than 100 of such lecturers being members of our Branch in University of Jos.”

Maigoro added that, “more worrisome is the fact that while the AGF is refusing to pay these salaries, his staff in the OAGF are busy calling the affected lecturers and insisting they have to register with IPPIS before they are paid; some are even asked to forfeit a part of their salaries in order to be paid. So it is very clear that this is a deliberate act on the part of the AGF and his staff.”