ASUU Strike: Nasarawa Govt Agrees To Pay Salaries to Striking NSUK Lecturers
Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule disclosed during a briefing with members of the state executive council, at the fifth state executive council meeting, which held at the Government House, on Wednesday 31 August 2022 that Nasarawa State Government are set to pay the outstanding salary areas to the striking lecturers.
Gov. Sule while briefing the council on recent developments across the educational, health and security sectors of the state, announced the decision of his administration to agree to takeover the payment of salaries at Nasarawa State University Keffi(NSUK), thereby meeting one of the key demands by the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), thus paving the way for the possible resumption of academic activities.
According to the Governor, based on the available finances to the state and especially because of the importance attached to education, his administration has agreed to take over the responsibility of paying salaries of staff at the NSUK, beginning from the month of August.
He pointed out that, so far, the management of the university, as well as the non teaching unions namely the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) have all agreed to open the university.
In his words, “One of the conditions they gave to us, the most important condition, is to ensure that we take over the full payment of salaries of all the staff, so that they don’t have to use their IGR.
“As far as we are concerned, we looked at our finances and we strongly believe that, based on the cashflow we have available to us and also because of the importance we attach to education, that we should be able to start that from this month.
“That is what we are looking forward to do. We are also hoping they will compliment by the moment we start the payment hopefully by Thursday or Friday, then we are hoping to see them also returning to their classes.”
Source: channelstv.com
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