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ASUU Strike: El-Rufai Threatens To Sack Kaduna Lecturers

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The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has threatened to declare vacant the position of all lecturers of the Kaduna State University (KASU) who are currently involved in the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike.

Naija News reports that ASUU had shut all public universities and commenced its ongoing strike on February 14, after the FG failed to meet some of its demands.

The demands are the release of revitalization funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution platform for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers.

Speaking on a radio programme in Kaduna on Wednesday, El-Rufai directed lecturers of KASU to return to classrooms.

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While insisting that the lecturers had no reason to join any strike, the governor said ASUU had a problem with the federal government and not with the state government.

El-Rufai said, “The Acting Vice Chancellor has assured me that they will resume, and I have asked them to find out if they actually resumed work because I initially instructed that their salary be stopped. But I was later told they didn’t join the strike, so I asked that it should be investigated, and those that collected salary and joined the strike will be asked to refund the salary.

“This is because Nigeria’s law says ‘no work, no pay.’ This is the law. So whoever joined the strike would not be paid salary. We have been telling the KASU Lecturers that they have no problem with State government. ASUU’s problem is with the Federal government, therefore, why will our staff who have no problems with us joined the strike?

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“If this continues, I will wake up one day to sack them all, I swear to God. We will sack them all and declare their positions vacant on the pages of newspaper. They once did same thing and we gave them warning, now they repeated it. I’m only waiting to receive the report from the commissioner for education. I swear to God, we will sack all those that joined the strike if they refuse to resume work.”