ASUU strike: Gov Yahaya to invoke No-Work-No -Pay policy as GSU lecturers fail to resume work.

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As the Academic Staff Union of Universities National Executive Council (NEC) decided to extend its six months d strike, Gombe State governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has said the state government will invoke ‘no-work-no-pay’ policy if lecturers at the Gombe State University (GSU) refused to resume classes.

The lecturers were directed by GSU university management but refuse to show up to classes to teach.

Responding questions during a town hall meeting, ‘A Fada A Cika,’ organised by the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) the governor said the state government had been paying lecturers salaries for the past six months that GSU had joined the strike.

He lamented that the government had engaged the management of the university and the GSU chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with a view to ending the strike to no avail.

When asked about the backlog of gratuities for retired workers, the governor said his administration inherited N25 billion gratuities debts from previous administrations.

He explained that his administration was into discussions with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and other stakeholders, to reduce the debts in the remaining nine months of his first term.

The governor, however, noted that since his assumption of office, civil servants and pensioners received their salaries and pension, respectively, between 25th and 27th of every month.

Daily Trust