The federal government has explained why it will not pay striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for the period they did not work.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said the decision is to discourage other unions from embarking on strike with the hope that they will be paid.
He stated that government rejected ASUU’s demand to be paid the salary backlog because it believes that there has to be penalties for their action.
Adamu lamented that the ongoing strike by the university-based unions came despite the N6.3trillion expended on education by the present administration directly as well as by agencies such as TEFFUND and UBEC, on recurrent and capital projects
Adamu informed that the University Perculiar Personnel and Payroll System (U3PS) and the the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) outscored the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS) during the integrity tests conducted, affiming that ASUU ‘s peculiarities will be accommodated in whatever platform that may me adopted.
He stated that five of the university-based unions will likely call off their strike within the next one week while that of ASUU is not certain.
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