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Senior lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the Federal Government not to provoke the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) following the half payment they received for October whilst still withholding about eight months salaries.
The human rights activist mentioned this while appearing on Channels TV’s politics today on Tuesday night.
He asked the FG to pay lecturers the withheld salaries, saying that’s the right thing to do.
Recall that ASUU embarked on eight-month academic strike action starting from February 14 till October 14 making it exactly eight months that the strike lasted.
ASUU called off their eight-month strike on Oct. 14 after the National Industrial Court (NIC) ordered the lecturers to resume.
However, the Federal Government paid half-salaries for the month of Oct. to the surprise of ASUU.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government explained that the lecturers were paid based on the days they worked in the stated month.
But speaking on the development, Falana, a counsel to ASUU, said on Tuesday, “The doctrine of ‘no work, no pay’ is totally inapplicable to ASUU members.
“We are asking all Nigerians who mounted pressure on ASUU to call off the strike ,all of us have a duty to prevail on the government to stop provoking the lecturers.”
Reports say that the FG is planning to pay members of CONUA their salary arrears creating an impression that they didn’t join ASUU to observe the eight months strike.
Meanwhile, speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila is still intervening on the matter and assured something will be done about it.