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FG Reportedly Fails To Honour Pact With ASUU

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Two weeks after suspending their nine-month-old strike, university teachers have accused the Federal Government of reneging on the agreement reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The dons, in a statement, said the government was yet to pay their December salaries, while “illegal” deductions were still to be refunded.

In the release, the union said the government had “again failed to honor its agreement on payment of not only outstanding salaries of members ranging from five to eight months; Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) and check off dues illegally deducted before December 31, 2020.”

The lecturers had embarked on strike in March 2020 over the government’s refusal to honor the agreement reached with ASUU in 2009 that revolves around university revitalization, improved funding, and infrastructure development.

The body also protested against the government’s introduction of an alternative payment platform, Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), insisting the initiative was at variance with university autonomy and therefore directed members not to enroll on the platform.

The strike was conditionally suspended following the intervention of stakeholders and the government’s directive to suspend the implementation of the controversial IPPIS for lecturers.

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But chairman, University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter of ASUU, Dr. Dele Ashiru, told The Guardian that successive administrations have always failed to honor agreements with the union.

He said the government made some promises before the protracted industrial action was suspended but regretted that the current administration had allegedly failed to its part of the bargain.

Ashiru said: “For instance, the government failed to pay members’ illegally deducted salaries before December 31, 2020, and as of January 3, we are yet to receive December 2020 salary. The government promised to refund our illegally deducted check-off dues before December 31, 2020, but that has not been done as we speak. They promised to credit the Earned Academic Allowances account before December 31 and that also has not been done.”

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