The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) yesterday began an indefinite strike over non-implementation of the 2009 and 2017 agreement reached with the union by the Federal Government.
The polytechnic lecturers have joined their university colleagues who have been on strike since November 4.
Speaking on Wednesday evening, the National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, said the federal government has invited the union for dialogue on December 17 but the strike continues till then.
Prior to the strike, the union had on October 2 issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government before it extended it to November. But even then, it did not commence the strike.
On Wednesday, Dutse said the strike has commenced and there is total compliance by all chapters.
โWe have zonal coordinators and a monitoring team, zone by zone, all over the country. Already from the report we are getting, we are satisfied with the level of compliance from all our zones but we are reviewing the day’s activity in a meeting nowโ, he said.
Meanwhile, students were seen writing their 2017/2018 second semester examination at the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos.
But none of the striking lecturers was seen in all the examination halls monitored.
At the Lagos State Polytechnic, an official, Salami Olugbenga, said they could not join the strike because there was no organ of the union in the polytechnic since December 2017.
