Following the half salary payment decision by federal government to lecturers, the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU), UNILAG branch has picked 15th of November 2022 for its own protest.
As a result, lecturers, under ASUU umbrella, have told their members irrespective of the branch to pick their own day for the solidarity protest by boycotting lecturing of students.
This is even as NANS vice president, intercampus affairs, Vanessa Egbeachi, told NATIONAL ECONOMY that, “Our prayers is that for at least the next 10 years, ASUU doesn’t go on strike at all for any reason. I personally feel a promise is a promise and agreement are meant to be kept. We are tired of just mere words, we want action in implementing the agreement that was reached with the ASUU leadership.”
Similarly, the chairman, NANS National Task Force on Ending ASUU Strike, Ojo Raymond Olumide, appealed to the lecturers to give room for current students to graduate before resumption of the struggle.
ASUU leadership declared lecture-free day in protest while UNILAG said, “We spent N1.4bn on electricity.’
The protest is allowed on individual level, whereby, each branch union across public university campuses nationwide will pick free-lecture day for all lecturers who are members.
The chairman of ASUU, University of Lagos (UNILAG) branch, Dr. Dele Ashiru, who confirmed this yesterday, reiterated that, every university where ASUU has members has been directed to choose a day within the week to hold a special congress and also go on protest rally within their campuses.
He said UNILAG-ASUU had fixed Tuesday, November 15, 2022 for its own rally.
According to him, the aim of the protest rally is simply to draw the attention of Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora to ASUU’s strong dissatisfaction of the federal government’s attempt at casualisation of the academics in the country by using ‘no-work, no-pay policy’ to remunerate them.
