The striking poly lecturers, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), and the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), intended to take the streets of Abuja on June 20, 2014, Friday, to protest Federal Government’s failure to meet their demands, NigerianTribune reports.
* Photo from the scene one of the previous protests. Photo credit - @BizWatchNigeria
Both of the unions keep accusing the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, of his incompetence. The aggrieve unions’ members condemn his inability to address the issue of lingering strikes and attempts to discredit them and their organisations, instead of addressing the issues.
Both unions would also draw attention to FG’s failure to kick-start the re-negotiation of an agreement it signed with them in 2009, which was due in July 2012.
ASUP went on nationwide strike on October 4, 2013. Their aim was to press home their demands for better funding and improved welfare package for polytechnic lecturers. The union is also demanding an end to the HND/B.Sc dichotomy.
COEASU joined striking polytechnic lecturers on December 18, 2013, after a series of warning strikes. The union protests against the “non-accreditation of its programmes, corruption of the security architecture of the colleges through outsourcing to settle political allies at the detriment of staff and government’s huge investment and non-payment of pension/death benefits to families of deceased members.”
The parents and, especially, polytechnic students are suffering the most, as they have lost a whole academic session.
Lecturers and students of Nigeria’s polytechnics were tear-gassed and dispersed with water canons by the police during a previous mass protest in Abuja.
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