Following the government’s decision to implement the no-work, no-pay policy, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has imposed a new condition on the federal government.
Insisting that unfinished academic sessions should be forgotten in the absence of the action, ASUU insisted that the Federal Government would be required to pay the lecturers’ salary backlog.
Despite the fact that public universities have been closed since February of this year, he said that lecturers should still be paid since they must continue to teach to make up for the time lost due to the closure.
According to Osodeke, you are not required to complete the backlog of work during the times that “other unions go on strike and then return, all those periods for which you are on strike.”
“If we agree on that, therefore, the lectures we should’ve given [to students] for 2020/2021 and 2021/22 [sessions], should be allowed to go so we start a new session, 2022/23, in September, said Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU president on Friday on Channels TV.
“Therefore, by July next year, I would go on my leave as we used to have in those days so that the backlog is gone. All the lectures that remain; all the two sets of admissions that JAMB has given that are waiting should become irrelevant.”
“But for ASUU, when we go back today, we’re going to start from the 2020/2021 session. For these two sets of students that have been admitted by JAMB, we’ve to teach them over these periods to ensure that we meet up with the system.
“So, we’re going to do the backlog of the work we’ve left behind. We aren’t going to start today and say ‘This session is 2022/23, therefore, all these two sets of people that have been admitted by JAMB are cancelled. We have to take another admission for the 2023/24 session’.”
