Academic Staff Union of Polytehnics (ASUP) has
vowed to sustain the ongoing four months strike
until government address all the contending issues
and also take appropriate step towards
repositioning polytechnic education in the country.
The union regretted government’s irresponsible
attitude towards polytechnic education, stressing
that “it is a clear indication of the estimation in
which government holds polytechnic education, a
perception that has acerbated the discrimination
and marginalization of the sector and its graduates
by both the public and private sector of the
economy.”
Leading the national officers of ASUP in a press
conference in Kaduna, its national president,
Comrade Chibuzo Asomugha noted that while
government was busy intervening in other sectors
that had been on strike or threatening strike, it has
remained unperturbed about responding to the cry
of the union in order to end the four months strike.
“We make bold to say that the critical state of the
polytechnic sector today has significantly been
encouraged by government’s attitude and approach
to issues concerning it, ”he noted.
He reiterated, “With the
current attitude of
government towards
polytechnic education,
there is no guessing why
the much talked about
technological
development has
continued to elude us and
why the future of our
country is shrouded in
the miasma of
retrogression.”
Comrade Asomugha
stressed that the
struggle with government
which led to the current
strike dated back to 2012
where issues in
contention were brought
to the attention of
government, including
the continued
discrimination against
polytechnic graduates in
public service and in the
labour market in Nigeria.
Others include the non-
release of the white
paper on the visitation of
federal polytechnics, the
refusal of government to
fund the implementation
of CONTISS 15 migration
for the lower cadres and
its arrears as from 2009, the non establishment of a
National Polytechnics Commission (NPC) and the
continued recognition of the National Board for
Technical Education (NBTE) as a regulatory body for
polytechnics.
The union frowned at the snail pace of the review of
polytechnic Act by the National Assembly and the
gross underfunding of the polytechnic sub-sector
as well as the continued lopsidedness in the
disbursement of TETfund grants and other
interventions clearly designed for polytechnic
sector.
The union suggested that the framework that would
revamp the sector requires inventiveness and the
strengthening of all resources both human and
finance as well as thorough commitment,
participation and support of all stakeholders.
vowed to sustain the ongoing four months strike
until government address all the contending issues
and also take appropriate step towards
repositioning polytechnic education in the country.
The union regretted government’s irresponsible
attitude towards polytechnic education, stressing
that “it is a clear indication of the estimation in
which government holds polytechnic education, a
perception that has acerbated the discrimination
and marginalization of the sector and its graduates
by both the public and private sector of the
economy.”
Leading the national officers of ASUP in a press
conference in Kaduna, its national president,
Comrade Chibuzo Asomugha noted that while
government was busy intervening in other sectors
that had been on strike or threatening strike, it has
remained unperturbed about responding to the cry
of the union in order to end the four months strike.
“We make bold to say that the critical state of the
polytechnic sector today has significantly been
encouraged by government’s attitude and approach
to issues concerning it, ”he noted.
He reiterated, “With the
current attitude of
government towards
polytechnic education,
there is no guessing why
the much talked about
technological
development has
continued to elude us and
why the future of our
country is shrouded in
the miasma of
retrogression.”
Comrade Asomugha
stressed that the
struggle with government
which led to the current
strike dated back to 2012
where issues in
contention were brought
to the attention of
government, including
the continued
discrimination against
polytechnic graduates in
public service and in the
labour market in Nigeria.
Others include the non-
release of the white
paper on the visitation of
federal polytechnics, the
refusal of government to
fund the implementation
of CONTISS 15 migration
for the lower cadres and
its arrears as from 2009, the non establishment of a
National Polytechnics Commission (NPC) and the
continued recognition of the National Board for
Technical Education (NBTE) as a regulatory body for
polytechnics.
The union frowned at the snail pace of the review of
polytechnic Act by the National Assembly and the
gross underfunding of the polytechnic sub-sector
as well as the continued lopsidedness in the
disbursement of TETfund grants and other
interventions clearly designed for polytechnic
sector.
The union suggested that the framework that would
revamp the sector requires inventiveness and the
strengthening of all resources both human and
finance as well as thorough commitment,
participation and support of all stakeholders.
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