A new strike by academics at the nation’s public institutions cannot be ruled out in 2023, according to Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, a former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
On Saturday, Ogunyemi revealed this while participating in the end-of-year special 2022: In Retrospect on Channels TV.
Remember that in 2022, ASUU began a prolonged strike that lasted more than eight months in response to demands for enhanced welfare and unpaid earned allowances, among other things.
However, ASUU called off the strike when the Industrial Court ordered its members to report back to work.
However, using its no-work, no-pay policy as the justification, the Federal Government only paid the lecturers 50% of their salaries for the month of October.
Ogunyemi said the Federal Government is insensitive to the plights of ASUU and noted that it is an injustice not to pay its members in arrears as they work in arrears as well.
“We must understand what triggers strike action. I don’t think anybody can promise you there will be no strike (in 2023),” Ogunyemi said.
