ASUP Strike Continues Until We Meet With The Government

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) embarked on an indefinite strike in October, 2013 to press home its demand for improvement in the condition of service and infrastructure in government-owned polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of technology.

It also demands that the Federal Government should remove dichotomy between HND and degree holders. They also demanded the release of the White Paper on the NEEDS assessment of polytechnics and review of the Polytechnic Act by the National Assembly, among others.

The government has met some of the demands, including inauguration of governing councils and setting up of the NEEDS assessment committees , but however the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has resolved to continue its nine months old strike pending the outcome of his meeting with the Senate Committee on Education on July 1.

The President of the union, Chibuzor Asumogha, said that a meeting of the committee and some education stakeholders scheduled for June 24 did not hold because no government official came.

``That meeting was supposed to be held, resolution reached and agreement signed.

``It was against the backdrop that we fixed the NEC meeting so that, if we have the resolutions, we will come here and suspend the strike.

"Incidentally, none of the government official came for the meeting and because of that the meeting did not hold,'' he said.

``This is the position of the NEC; we are meeting again next Tuesday," he said. We have been compromising since 2013. We have continued to agree to suspend the strike but at each point government always bridged the agreement," he said.

He appealed to the parents and students to continue to be patient and support the union to achieve it goals

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