This is just 2 weeks ASUU suspended its strike,
lecturers in the colleges of education on Tuesday
commenced their own warning strike.
The lecturers, under the auspices of Colleges of
Education Academic Staff Union, made this known
in a letter to the Supervising Minister of Education,
Nyesom Wike on Tuesday.
The COEASU General Secretary, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima,
while delivering the letter, lamented that the
Federal Government had failed to address issues
raised by the union.
The union’s complaints bordered on infrastructural
decay, poor funding, non-implementation of the
2010 FG- COEASU agreement, poor conditions of
service, brain drain and illegal imposition of the
Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information
System.
In the letter signed by the COEASU National
President, Asagha Nkoro and Ogirima, the union
accused the government of directing the National
Commission for Colleges of Education to impose
the IPPIS on colleges.
It said, “While government held a series of talks
with the leadership of the union between
September and December 2013, it is evident that
the government does not wish to keep her side of
the bargain in meeting the understanding reached
at such meetings.
“This, without equivocation, is unacceptable to our
union given the peculiar high nuisance and volatile
nature of the colleges of education sector.
“More so, but for the constitution and inauguration
of the Needs Assessment Committee, government
merely paid lip services to all other issues,
highlighted in our earlier correspondences”.
The union further complained about discrimination
against its members via the refusal to fund the
peculiar and responsibility allowances as
obtainable in earned allowances of the universities;
refusal to implement the migration of lower cadres
as obtainable in polytechnics; and non-
accreditation of programmes of the colleges of
education among others.
COEASU said its members had been directed to
resume the strike suspended earlier this year,
“unless and until government meets the demands”.
Ogirima, who later spoke to our correspondent,
said the union embarked on the action due to the
attitude of the government.
He said, “You would recall that we observed a
week warning strike earlier this year and the
Federal Government called us for talks. Sadly, but
for the NEEDS Assessment Committee which
government inaugurated, all other issues remain
unattended in spite of the over six months of
dialogue.
lecturers in the colleges of education on Tuesday
commenced their own warning strike.
The lecturers, under the auspices of Colleges of
Education Academic Staff Union, made this known
in a letter to the Supervising Minister of Education,
Nyesom Wike on Tuesday.
The COEASU General Secretary, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima,
while delivering the letter, lamented that the
Federal Government had failed to address issues
raised by the union.
The union’s complaints bordered on infrastructural
decay, poor funding, non-implementation of the
2010 FG- COEASU agreement, poor conditions of
service, brain drain and illegal imposition of the
Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information
System.
In the letter signed by the COEASU National
President, Asagha Nkoro and Ogirima, the union
accused the government of directing the National
Commission for Colleges of Education to impose
the IPPIS on colleges.
It said, “While government held a series of talks
with the leadership of the union between
September and December 2013, it is evident that
the government does not wish to keep her side of
the bargain in meeting the understanding reached
at such meetings.
“This, without equivocation, is unacceptable to our
union given the peculiar high nuisance and volatile
nature of the colleges of education sector.
“More so, but for the constitution and inauguration
of the Needs Assessment Committee, government
merely paid lip services to all other issues,
highlighted in our earlier correspondences”.
The union further complained about discrimination
against its members via the refusal to fund the
peculiar and responsibility allowances as
obtainable in earned allowances of the universities;
refusal to implement the migration of lower cadres
as obtainable in polytechnics; and non-
accreditation of programmes of the colleges of
education among others.
COEASU said its members had been directed to
resume the strike suspended earlier this year,
“unless and until government meets the demands”.
Ogirima, who later spoke to our correspondent,
said the union embarked on the action due to the
attitude of the government.
He said, “You would recall that we observed a
week warning strike earlier this year and the
Federal Government called us for talks. Sadly, but
for the NEEDS Assessment Committee which
government inaugurated, all other issues remain
unattended in spite of the over six months of
dialogue.
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