Polytechnic lecturers add to FG’s worry, to begin strike Wednesday
Just as the Federal Government seeks to placate university lecturers to return to the classrooms, polytechnic lecturers have resolved to add to the trouble.
Lecturers under the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) said on Tuesday that they’ll begin their own strike on Wednesday, December 12.
They also claim the FG has refused to implement the 2009 and 2017 agreements reached with the union.
The union’s National President Usman Dutse told NAN that though the union had been included in the scheduled meeting between ASUU and the FG next week, it would not renege on plan to begin the strike tomorrow.
“We are commencing our strike tomorrow as scheduled. Everything is set and there is no going back,” Dutse is quoted as saying.
“There is an invitation for a meeting on December 17, but we will still commence our strike on Wednesday.
“I don’t know what will happen at the meeting or what they have decided, but until we meet with them, we cannot predict.
“I don’t know what they plan to present until we meet with them,“ he said.
He added that there would be no academic activities in all polytechnics until its demands are met by the government.
