NASU vows to go on strike over unpaid salaries

 

 The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions on Tuesday in Ilorin, Kwara State vowed to embark on a warning strike over unpaid salary arrears of its members.

The General Secretary of NASU, Peters Adeyemi, gave this warning at the opening of a two-day National Executive Council meeting of the Union yesterday.

Adeyemi said members of the union had not been paid August and September salaries.

He said, “NASU will soon commence a nationwide strike in all the nation’s universities because members have not been paid salaries for two months.

“For us, it does not make any sense to keep the school running when we have not been paid salaries.

“One of the issues we will consider at this meeting is that we will not continue to keep the system running if government fails to pay our salaries.”

Also speaking, the President of the union, Ladi Iliya, said the organisation would not support any attempt to sack, retrench or victimise NASU members under the guise of implementing the Needs Assessment Reports.

Illiya added that, “Contrary to reports, the university system is not overloaded with non-academic staff.

“Our research has confirmed that most of the universities are short of non-academic staff because many have left the system without being replaced.

“It is not also true that substantial part of the universities funds is being expended on non-academic staff.”

Earlier in his remark, Alhaji Aliyu Lade, the Kwara State Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, urged the Union to enrol its members for the contributory pension scheme.