As the nationwide ASUU
strike continues unabated,
it appears the ‘end of the
tunnel’ is still at a distance,
as the Federal Government
has invoked the ‘no work, no pay’ labour policy
against the protesting
lecturers. DailyPost has learnt that
some members of ASUU
from federal universities
are yet to be paid both
their August and
September salaries, a situation majority of them
said was not unconnected
to the ongoing strike and
the directive issued lately
by the federal government
to Vice Chancellors to apply the labour rule of ‘’ no
work, no pay.’’ Some branch chairmen of
the Union had earlier told
Daily Sun that Vice
Chancellors of various
universities have been
asked via text messages to suspend the payment of
salaries to academic staff
that are currently on
strike, asserting that the
decision was beginning to
affect non-academic staff as well. An exco member who
spoke on the development
said he confronted the
university management
alongside his other exco
members over salary delays, and were shown
some text messages,
directing that protesting
lecturers must not be paid
their salaries. The member had stressed
that the application of ‘no
work no pay’ rule would
be ineffective as the
striking lecturers were not
on strike because of salaries. Relatively, the ASUU
chairman, Federal
University of Agriculture,
Abeokuta, Dr. Biodun
Badmus, had disclosed that
the vice chancellor received some text messages not to
pay ASUU members their
Salaries, even though he
defended that August
salaries were yet to be
released to the school. He told Daily Sun thus,
“Any vice chancellor that
has paid August salary did
so using the university’s
Internally Generated
Revenue (IGR). We are not bothered about the salary
issue, because at the end of
the day, they will still pay
us.”