LASPOTECH Lecturers To Go On Strike Again

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Barely a month after resuming from their three-month old strike, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, Lagos State Polytechnic chapter, has threatened to go on an indefinite strike again, if the state government fails to implement the 65-year retirement age approved by the federal government.

To this end, the lecturers gave the state government a seven-day ultimatum to meet their demand or they will embark on another strike.

A joint statement signed by Mr. Arowolo Olatunji Taofik, Chairman and Mr. T. O. Rabiu, General Secretary of ASUP, Lagos State Polytechnic chapter, also reflected on the hapless state of unpaid pensioners of the institution and called on the state government to intervene before it gets out of hand.

Arowolo gave an insight into the trauma and challenges faced by retired staff of the institution due to non payment of pensions and gratuities by the state government, adding that the seven-day ultimatum was to make the government correct the anomaly.

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The lecturers also reminded the state government of the agreement it signed with the staff before the last strike was called off and restated its demand that a non academic staff cannot be made the rector of the institution.

“We have resolved to resist any attempt by the government to impose or endorse a non-academic staff of the institution as the next rector,” the lecturers added.

—Dedeigbo Ayodeji

 

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