Delayed Salaries: ASUU Adopts No-Pay, No-Work Stance Against Federal Government
Delayed Salaries: ASUU Adopts No-Pay, No-Work Stance Against Federal Government
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has implemented a no-pay, no-work policy in response to the ongoing delay in the payment of its members’ salaries by the Federal Government.
ASUU National President, Professor Chris Piwuna, revealed this during an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Friday.
Piwuna accused the government of trying to frustrate members of the union following their departure from the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System, popularly known as IPPIS.
The Federal Government had announced the removal of academic and non-academic staff members of higher institutions from the controversial IPPIS, a platform which had been faulted several times by ASUU and other academic unions.
Speaking with our correspondent, Piwuna said, “Since the departure from IPPIS, the salaries of lecturers have consistently been delayed. We don’t get paid the way other workers get paid. It is either we are paid 10 days into a new month.
With the economic challenges in the country, it has not been easy for our members.
“Look at June now, we have not been paid, our members can’t celebrate Sallah properly. So, we have now resolved that since the government want to delay our salaries, we can’t continue to teach. We want to teach but we can’t teach without our salaries. We have decided to invoke the no-pay-no-work policy.
“Branches have started to adopt. What this means is that lecturers boycott classes pending the time that salaries are paid.”
Also speaking on behalf of non-academic staff, the National President of the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions, Mohammed Ibrahim, berated the government over the continuous delay.
He said, “Last month, we had to write a series of letters asking why our salaries were not released. No explanation was given.
University workers are being treated as though they are second-class citizens. We’ve already written to the Accountant General of the Federation and copied both the Ministers of Education and Labour. Although the Labour Ministry responded, saying they had reached out to the Minister of Education, it’s clear that nothing has changed—even this month,” he said.
