The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has said that its nationwide strike which it embarked upon since December 12, 2018 is not targeted at sabotaging the government and has nothing to do with the 2019 elections, but a struggle to get government live to its responsibility of resolving all its demands since 2017 that have clogged the progress of the polytechnic sector.
Addressing a press conference in Jos, Plateau State, the Zone B Coordinator of the union, Abdullahi Yalwa, said the union has done its best to get the attention of government to meet these demands, some of which are not financial, but all the efforts have been treated with disdain.
He said the union had also written series of memoranda and had consultative meetings with the government, but all to no avail, thereby subsequently leading to the strike. Read more