Tinubu approves payment of Academic Staff Union of Universities members’ withheld salaries
The Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has approved the payment of withheld salaries of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), eight months after the lecturers called of the eight months industrial action.
Penpushing reports that the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale made this known on Friday which was contained in a statement, explaining that the President invoked a prerogative of mercy to waive the earlier “no work, no pay” rule imposed on the workers by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari
‘Invoking the Principle of the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy, President Bola Tinubu has approved the partial waiver of the “No Work, No Pay” Order that was instituted against striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) following the commencement of their eight-month industrial action which began on February 14, 2022 and was terminated on October 17, 2022’, Ngelale wrote.
“In view of his determination to mitigate the difficulties being felt during the implementation of key economic reforms in the country, as well as his recognition of the faithful implementation of terms which were agreed upon during the fruitful deliberations between ASUU and the Federal Government of Nigeria’, the statement noted.
‘President Bola Tinubu has directed the grant of an exceptional last waiver of the “No Work, No Pay” Order on ASUU, which will allow for the previously striking members of ASUU to receive four (4) months of salary accruals out of the eight months of salary which was withheld during the eight-month industrial action undertaken by the union’, Ngelale added.
Penpushing further reports that the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, however silent on the withheld salaries of other workers unions in the universities, who had also embarked on strike within the same period.
The National Vice President of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Abdussobur Salaam, in response to the development declared that the union would wait for the government’s decision before reacting.
Penpushing also reports that the leadership of the union kicked against the decision of the Nigerian Government, and threatened to embark on another round of strike if its members withheld four-month salary was not paid alongside that of the university lecturers.
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