The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Gombe State University chapter, has decided to withhold the examination results of students due to payment of 18 working days’ salaries in October by the federal government.
It further moved to discontinue the supervision of undergraduates and postgraduate projects should the government fail to release the pending salaries for its members for the period while they were on strike.
The union made this known in a statement signed by the branch chairman, Suleiman Jauro, and made available to reporters on Thursday.
It partly read:
“The Congress of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Gombe State University branch, at its meeting held today, Wednesday 2nd November 2022, received the report of the engagements between the branch’s leadership and the University administration over the release of the withheld salaries.
“After exhaustive deliberations, the Congress therefore, resolved that given the University administration’s refusal to release the August and September salaries, members shall not submit the results of the first Semester examination for the 2021/2022 session; Not continue with the supervision of both undergraduate and postgraduate projects allocated prior to the commencement of the strike action.”
ASUU had complained on Thursday that the government only paid 81 working days’ salary in October leaving the rest 8 and half months behind.
The union called off its eight-month-old strike on October 14, 2022. Lecturers were encouraged to resume back to work by the union on that same day.
Speaking with reporters, a senior member of the National Executive Council, said:
“We were only paid for the days after the strike. I received a half salary. Other members are angry right now, they are blaming the NEC for calling off the strike.”
Another member also said:
“Yes, it is true, I received half salary. It seems the government is set to kill unionism in the country but we are ready foasuur them.”
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