The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has implored both the federal and state governmentsto quickly resolve its 13 point demands which it said constrained it to embark on a 9-month strike between October 2013 and July 2014.
The Union which has already issued a one month ultimatum to the government effective from 21st July this year to remedy the rots afflicting the Polytechnic / Monotechnic sector warned that failureto comply with this would compel the body to embark on another strike action.
Addressing newsmen in Owerri shortly after its emergency zonal meeting, the Zone D coordinator ofthe Union (ASUP) which comprises Polytechnics, Colleges of Technology and Monotechnics in the South South and South East (SS/SE), Comrade ChikaOgonwa of the Delta State Polytechnic Ugwuashi-Ukwu listed the issues in dispute as contained in the letter of ultimatum already issued to both the federal and the state governments.According to him, their demands include non-implementation of the NEEDS Assessment report of 2014, non-payment of salaries in many states’ owned institutions, shortfall in personnel allocations to Polytechnics as well as unpaid allowances in federal Polytechnics since January 2016, victimization of Union officials, non -release of check off dues and interference in union activities.Others according to him are: non release of arrears in many public polytechnics with some dating back to 2012 as well as non-implementation of CONTISS 15 migration salary scale in many polytechnics, delay in the review of the polytechnic act in addition to non-release of visitation panel reports of Federal Polytechnic since 2011.
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