Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU Nasarawa State University Keffi Branch has called on the Nasarawa State Government to commence payment of over six hundred million Naira Earned Academic Allowance owed lecturers of the institution to avert imminent breakdown of industrial harmony.
Chairman of ASUU of the school Professor Samuel Alu made the call during a peaceful protest in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
Academic and official activities were temporarily disrupted at the Nasarawa State University Keffi following a peaceful protest by lecturers of the institution to call on the attention of the federal and state governments to commence the implementation of agreements reached with the union in 2019.
The lecturers who came out in large numbers converged on the university’s assembly hall and marched to the main gate displaying placards with comments such as “Save the Ivory Towers from Total Collapse,” “We Say No to Enslavement, Education is a right that Must be protected” and “Revitalization is Key to the Survival of the Nigerian Universities”.
Addressing journalists, the Chairman, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU Nasarawa State University Keffi Branch Professor Samuel Alu explained that public universities across the country had continued to suffer infrastructure and manpower deficits due to inadequate attention.
Professor Alu called on the federal and state governments to take steps towards addressing their demands including the release of funds for the Revitalization of the public universities, payment of Earned Academic Allowance and indiscriminate proliferation of universities across the country.
Professor Samuel Alu stressed the need for Governor Abdullahi Sule to tow the path of Kwara, Ekiti and Osun State governments and commence payment of the federal government’s 35000 Naira wage award to lecturers of the university to provide them relief from the effects of the fuel subsidy removal.
