Earlyface

ASUP National Publicity Secretary, Clement Chairman, made
the disclosure in a press statement issued to journalists
yesterday.

According to the statement, government was playing games
with the issues in contention “of all the issues in contention,
none has been fully addressed.”
Parts of the issues between ASUP and the Federal
Government include re-negotiation of Federal Government
\ASUP agreement and the removal of dichotomy between
HND\University graduates in placement and career
progression, constitution of an effective and a functional
council for polytechnics, a white paper of visitation panel,
need assessment of polytechnics, is yet to be addressed.
The statement noted with regret that government is not
serious with the challenges of ASUP.

“It would be recalled that government requested for two
weeks to handle these issues, but ASUP granted one
month, which expired on the August 16, 2013. This is
enough provocation and ASUP will act most appropriately
to settle this matter once and for all.
“ASUP may soon consider resuming it suspended
nationwide strike as government seems to have failed to
honour the agreement reached one month ago.”
It would be recalled that what led to the suspension of the
strike, according to ASUP, was that the union suspended
the strike after an emergency National Executive Council
(NEC) meeting of the union held in Abuja.

Part of the statement reads, “The union, after a holistic
appraisal of the progress made so far resolved that the
strike be suspended. It noted that the circular for
implementation of CONTISS 15 migration for lower cadres
has been released while appreciable work has been done on
reconstitution of governing councils of Federal polytechnics,
which were earlier omitted.”


On enrolment of polytechnics into the IPPIS module, the
union remains resolute on its earlier position that
reasonable caution be employed to take care of the
autonomy of polytechnics.