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ASUP Issues Ultimatum, Demands Action Against Poly Councils

By Isa Abdulsalami Ahovi, Jos
14 February 2015   |   8:13 pm
THE National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Education, starting from 3rd February, 2015 to check the activities of the Councils of the Federal Polytechnics, Oko and Ekowe in order to get them to stay off union activities.   ASUP has…

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THE National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Ministry of Education, starting from 3rd February, 2015 to check the activities of the Councils of the Federal Polytechnics, Oko and Ekowe in order to get them to stay off union activities.

  ASUP has also urged the Federal Government to get them to rescind intimidation and arbitrary suspension of staff, as well as abuse of administrative procedures in the institutions.

  In a release signed yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Clement Chirman, the union observed “the reckless interference in its activities by councils and management of these polytechnics, and indeed the sordid experiences of its members in the institutions are lamentable.”

  Chirman, who decried the overbearing attitude of the governing council of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, observed that, “The council in the institution has unwittingly undertaken certain actions against staff and ASUP of the institution with the sole aim of souring industrial peace and promoting discontent.

  “The governing council in the Federal Polytechnic, Oko has entrenched a culture of vicious blackmail, bullying and intimidation of staff of the institution through unnecessary issuance of queries and suspension letters to staff and denial of salaries with the sole aim of protecting the Rector of the institution, whose style of administration has been weird and retrogressive and full of surplus misdeeds.”

  The Secretary said the council of the Oko Polytechnic recently rose from a curiously convened emergency session to overstep its bounds of duty by issuing a cynical statement purportedly proscribing ASUP in the institution with further threat of ruthless consequences for any staff that contravenes the order.

Chirman, who described the action of the council as wilful breach of an Act of the National Assembly, noted “this action came at a time when the Minister of Education had convened a stakeholders’ intervention on the Oko matter with both the Council and Management of the institution in attendance. By this illegal abuse of powers, the governing council has further affirmed its disrepute for disregarding the Minister of Education and, indeed, the National Assembly and the laws of the Federation.”

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