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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the Federal Government to apologise to all university staff for the financial embarrassment it made them to experience in the Month of February through excessive shortfall in personnel cost sent to universities accross Nigeria.
Chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan, Dr Deji Omole stated this in a chat with newsmen on Sunday in Ibadan.
He stated that the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union will meet within the week to consider the resolutions of the University of Ibadan chapter to proceed on strike owing to unpaid promotion arrears and postgraduate supervision since 2011, and illegal pension deductions by the university of Ibadan management.
He said: “The union condemns in its entirety the attitude of government with relation to policy somersault and failure to faithfully implement budget of universities. The reckless action of arbitrary deduction from February salary caused many household financial embarrassment. The union demands official apology from government and university of Ibadan management. Nigerians are having distrust in the government.”
Omole also urged Buhari to check sinister activities at the Budget office in Abuja, stressing that the union will resist her members being short-paid while they fully execute their job of teaching and research.
The union tasked Buhari to urgently face and fix the problem with the Nigerian economy to check growing tensions in the country, noting that policy inconsistency is a major flaw of the present government.
ASUU also cautioned the government against what it called anti-people policies that are capable of further impoverishing Nigerians.