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ASUU accuses Ngige of authorizing half salary, says he has lost the right to mediate

Chike Olisah by Chike Olisah
November 16, 2022
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ASUU accuses Ngige of authorizing half salary, says he has lost the right to mediate
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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has accused the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, of allegedly authorizing the part-payment of salaries to members of the union.

The ASUU President also said Ngige lost his right as a conciliator in the dispute, following some of his actions in the course of the ASUU strike. 

This was made known on Tuesday night by Osodeke while appearing on a Channels Television programme Politics Today.

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Ngige is an interloper: During the interview, Osodeke described the Labour Minister as an interloper, noting that he has nothing to offer and no role to play. He said:

  • “He (Ngige) has gone to court, which means he has lost his right as a conciliator. Once he has taken this case to the Industrial Court, he has lost that right as a conciliator; he has no say again, but he’s still interloping.’’
  • “He has nothing. He’s an interloper. If we’re calling him a conciliator, it has gone beyond him. And we have found that it was he who actually wrote to the Minister of Finance personally, not directly, that they should stop our salary. It’s just personal. We are surprised because, having taken the case to court, by all rights, his hands are tied. He has no business with what we do.
  • “But to our surprise, the Accountant General Office decided to pay what some people have referred to as half. It’s very sad because professors who are on the same salary scale got varying amounts, N200,000, N180,000, N90,000 and what have you.’’

On salary payment: The ASUU president confirmed that the part payment was the first salary paid to union members since the strike commenced.

  • “The question we need to ask ourselves is, can a Minister of Labour direct the Minister of Finance on what to do? The answer is no. We are under the Ministry of Education, and we thought that anybody that can give such a directive who monitors what we do through the NUC is the Minister of Education.
  • “It is the Minister of Education, who we are under, and the Speaker on whose intervention we called off the strike because of the issue we said that one, they are going to pay us backlog of our salaries because ASUU is different from another union,” he said.

The backstory: ASUU members embarked on a strike on February 14, 2022, to press home their demands on the federal government.

Some of the lecturers’ demands include funding for the revitalisation of public universities, payment of earned academic allowances, and adoption of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as a preferred payment option instead of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Other demands include payment of promotion arrears and the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, had dragged ASUU to the National Industrial Court, seeking an order of the court to restrain striking lecturers from further continuing with the strike.

Despite a ruling by the National Industrial Court on September 21, 2022, ordering them to return to work, the university lecturers remained adamant and subsequently filed an appeal against the court ruling.

After no breakthrough in negotiations between ASUU and the Federal Government, the Appeal Court ordered the striking lecturers to resume duty immediately.

ASUU in October suspended its long industrial action in line with an order by the National Industrial Court for the lecturers to return to work.

The Federal Government has since defended the pro-rata payment to ASUU members in October, saying they cannot be paid for work not done.


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Chike Olisah

Chike was a banker with over 11 years experience in retail and commercial banking, risk management, treasury portfolio management and relationship management. He also acquired some experience in financial management and do have some special interest in investment analysis and personal finance. He had stints with financial institutions like the former Intercontinental Bank and Fidelity Bank.

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  1. Eburo king says:
    November 16, 2022 at 3:22 pm

    The FGN has once again betrayed the trust of the people, and shown utter insensitivity to the plight of the youths of this country. Where are the senate president, the speaker of the house, the ’emilokan’, the party chairman, etc? Is there nobody who can call this government to order? And they are still campaigning and want us to vote for them again. Our mumu don do. Our affliction would never arise a second time.!

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  2. 9jaRealist says:
    November 17, 2022 at 5:45 am

    If you work half of the month, you should be paid half-salary. Enough of the extortion and greed!

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