After receiving ludicrous pay that does not match their monthly wages, lecturers have continued to criticize the president Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government, accusing it of jeopardizing efforts by stakeholders toward ending ASUU strike.
Speaking with Newsbreak Nigeria on the development, a lecturer at the University of Lagos who choose not to be named confirmed the development saying that the Federal government was only worsening the yet-to-be-resolved feud with the union.
” I cannot speak on behalf of the union because there is a structure, yes we were paid a ridiculous amount its not even up to one month from the eight months which we’re being owed. This action will only jeopardize efforts by stakeholders to bring the ASUU-FG feud to an end,” he said.
On her part, a lecturer at the Federal University Oye Ekiti, told Newsbreak Nigeria that the lecturers are hoping that it is just the process of recieving all the salaries they’re being owed.
“I want to believe this is the starter of the payment of our salaries because i don’t think this will actually sit well with many of us that have been unpaid since Feburary,” she said.
The University of Ilorin’s (UNILORIN) ASUU chairman, Moyosore Ajao, acknowledged the development.
While detailing to reporters that he had not gotten his pay he revealed that other lecturers have been receiving
ASUU had gone on strike on February 14 to emphasize its demands, which included more financing for institutions and a review of teachers’ pay among other things.
The federal government had threatened not to pay the lecturers for the strike period during the back-and-forth over the union’s demands, but a review of the decision was reportedly being considered.
On October 14, the union called off its strike and told its members to go back to work immediately.
Days after the Abuja-based court of appeal ordered the union to halt its strike, the decision to suspend the strike was made.
Despite the strike’s postponement, union members who spoke with TheCable on Thursday claimed that they had not yet received their full salary from the government.
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