NASU Urges FG To Meet Demands, Restore Normalcy In Polytechnics

                                                  

 

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in Polytechnics has urged the Federal Government to meet its six-point demands in order to restore normalcy in polytechnics nationwide.

 

This was contained in a two-page document issued to newsmen by NASU branch in Federal Polytechnic, Oko in Anambra on Tuesday.

 

The statement was jointly signed by Chief Ikechukwu Ezenwankwo and Comrade Godfrey Nwankwo, who are the branch Chairman and Secretary respectively.

 

It said that the government through the ministry of education should ensure the payment of the arrears of the CONTISS 15 Migration to NASU members; adding that it had had an accrued arrears from January 2009.

 

The statement also urged the government to ensure that there was adequate budgetary provision in the 2014 budget for the continued implementation of the CONTISS 15 Migration to its members.

 

According to the statement, the current implementation of CONTISS 15 through the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of polytechnics was not acceptable by the union any longer.

 

``Thirdly, the union appeals to the honourable minister that the injustice of exclusion of NASU from the membership of the Needs Assessment Committee of Public Polytechnics is addressed without further delay in the interest of justice and equity.

 

``The union calls on the honourable minister to urgently constitute a committee to review the 2010 FGN/NASU Agreement for the polytechnic sector; which has fallen due for review since July, 2012.

 

``The union calls on the honourable minister to ensure improved funding of the polytechnics if the country is to attain the much needed technological development,’’ it said.

 

Finally, it said that the union would reject any attempt being made to make the polytechnics key into the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS); since universities are yet to key into the system.

 

The already three months old indefinite strike action of NASU started on Nov. 4, 2013.