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FG must pay us N19bn before we call off strike___ ASUP
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic has insisted that they will continue their ongoing industrial action which has crippled the academic activities in their various campuses until the Federal Government injects in real terms N19 billion into the system.
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic has insisted that they will continue their ongoing industrial action which has crippled the academic activities in their various campuses until the Federal Government injects in real terms N19 billion into the system.
According to them, the N19billion is the amount the government had agreed and signed with the union at their last meeting to release into the public polytechnic education nationwide and that the money covers N15 billion revitalization funds and another N4 billion to offset their accumulated salary arrears on minimum wage.
Furthermore, the National President of ASUP, Dr. Anderson Ezeibe, gave this explanation again, in an exclusive interview with newsmen on Monday.
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“So, the government will need to inject the N19 billion into the system without further delay. It is for the good of polytechnic education and Nigeria’s economy as a whole.
“Our Naira is being depreciated in value each and so the government will need to do the needful by releasing the money in real term and not in the paper,” he stressed.
“Though we heard that the Federal Ministry of Education had already made a request in written to the President for the release of the funds, N19 billion, we can’t rely on that as requisition for funds is not the same thing as the fund itself.”