Federal Poly Ede: We Are Not Ready To Pull Out of ASUP Strike
As against all Speculation if the Federal Polytechnic Ede will pull out of the ASUP Strike action, resume and regain normalcy of all academic activities today being Monday 7th of January,2019.
Our Media Correspondent, gathered that the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP Fed Poly Ede Chapter, has said that it is not true ‘Ede ASUP Chapter is not planning and will never boycott the strike’ further said Ede chapter alone was not in a position to determine whether an end to its ongoing strike is in sight. ASUP Ede Chapter Gen.Sec Com. Ben festus while Speaking with Reporter G.song made this known.
You will recall that the Polytechnic lecturers,weeks ago
embarked on industrial action over the failures of the Federal Government to implement its part of the agreement it signed with the union towards ensuring proper funding of the Polytechnic and non compliance of the Federal Government to the Condition of services, among others. And following the downtooling in the school the known animated campus of Federal Polytechnic Ede have been left absolutely still and quiet.
Similarly, in another interview, the Publicity Secretary of ASUP EDE chapter disclosed that before 12th December, 2018 at Yabatech when the Council of National Officers of ASUP embark on National Strike, there are several agreements between the Federal Government and ASUP, but ever since then our government has been insensitive to the following request of the union on the implementation of the agreement. Few of the agreement signed are:
1. Implementation of 2013 scheme of service
2. NEEDs assessment
3. CONTISS 15 Arrears
4. Non payment of salaries to state owned institutions.
5. Review of Polytechnic commission (Honouring 2010 agreement)
6.Polytechnic Act
7.Victimization of our members and others. while seizing the medium to inform the the students and the general public that ASUP Federal Polytechnic, EDE is a branch of National ASUP, there is no order yet from above to call off or suspend the strike, so we are fully on strike pending the directives of the National. ‘ disclosing that If the Federal Government calls us (ASUP NATIONAL) for negotiations, we are not against that. But, we are not in the government’s position,” the Ede ASUP Chapter will never go against the order of the National body and we are not ready to pull out’ he said.