Latest information reaching us as it that, Lecturers of
Kaduna Polytechnic on Tuesday embarked on a three-
day warning strike over the failure of the school
management to yield to their demands.
Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics
(ASUP), Kaduna Poly chapter, Engr. Musa Ibrahim, who
promulgate this to journalists in Kaduna said that the
main reason for the three-day warning strike was the
unjustifiable removal of their workload allowance by the
management, as well as the poor state of infrastructure
in the institution.
He further stated that there would be no lectures during
the period of the strike, warning that the union shall
resume an indefinite strike if at the end of the three
days, the school management fails to restore their
workload allowance and also address some other
demands that are critical to their job.
The lecturers are also aggrieved over the delay in the
full commencement of Kaduna Polytechnic and Yaba
College of Technology Lagos as universities, nine years
after the federal government announced their
conversion into a University of Technology.
Reacting to the issues raised by the lecturers, the Rector
of the Polytechnic, Dr Mohammed Ibrahim, described
the allegation as untrue.
He explained that over N6 Million has been spent on the
payment of the excess workload allowance to the
lecturers despite inheriting over N1.5 billion debt when
he came on board three years ago.
The Rector, while describing the strike by the lecturers
as uncalled for, said that the management did not stop
the payment of the excess workload allowance, but
explained that what has delayed the payment of
outstanding arrears is lack of funds.
He, however, appealed to the Kaduna Poly lecturers to
suspend the strike, promising that their remaining
allowances would be paid as soon as funds are
available.
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