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Half Salary: UNIJOS ASUU Declares Indefinite Sit At Home Order

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The University of Jos (UNIJOS) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Friday, declared an indefinite sit-at-home order for its members.

Naija News reports that the order follows the payment of half of the salaries for the month of October to university lecturers by the Federal Government.

The UNIJOS ASUU has insisted in a statement that that the order would last till the government make payment of its withheld salaries resulting from the federal government’s no work, no pay policy.

The UNIJOS ASUU branch chairperson, Prof Lazarus Maigoro, who signed the statement noted that one of the agreements at the meeting was that 50 % of lecturers’ withheld salaries would be paid to ASUUmembers immediately after it called off the eight-month-old strike.

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However, Maigoro, who was disappointed about the payment of half salaries to ASUU members cited that members of staff of some Agricultural Research Institutes have been on strike for almost a year but they have been receiving their salaries regularly, so he is yet to understand why the minister of labour, Chris Ngige is bent on withholding the salaries of ASUU members.

Maigoro said the academic body is also aware that Ngige wrote a memo to the Accountant General asking him to pay ASUU members only from the day strike was suspended.

He added that “One of the issues agreed at the meeting was that 50 per cent of the backlog of eight months’ arrears of our withheld salaries would be paid to our members immediately but as of the time of writing this press release, only 17 days prorated October salary was paid to our members by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation.

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“Having stayed for about nine months running now, our members in the University of Jos considered this an insult to them by the Accountant General of the Federation.
“Is the Accountant General of the Federation actually answerable to the Minister of Labour? So, if today the Minister of Agriculture directs the Accountant General of the Federation to withhold the salaries of the staff of the Agricultural Research Institutes who have been on strike for over a year, will he obey that?

“We wonder why Ngige is keen about withholding the salaries of ASUU members because members of staff of some Agricultural Research Institutes have been on strike for almost a year but they have been receiving their salaries regularly. Is this policy only for ASUU members?

“We are also aware that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, wrote a memo to the Accountant General asking him to pay our members only from the day we suspended the strike,’’ the statement partly read.

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