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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said that unfinished academic sessions will be forgone if the Federal Government fails to pay the backlog of salaries owed to members during the duration of the ongoing strike.
This was disclosed by the President of the union, Emmanuel Osodeke, during an interview on Television yesterday.
His position follows the threat by the Federal government not to pay lecturers for the period of the ongoing industrial action.
Osodeke, in his reaction, said, “If we agree on that, therefore, the lectures we should have given (to students) for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 (sessions), should be allowed to go so we start a new session, 2022/2023, in September.
“Therefore, by July next year, I would go on my leave as we used to have in those days so that the backlog is gone. All the lectures that remain; all the two sets of admissions that JAMB has given that are waiting should become irrelevant,” he said.
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He added, “For ASUU, when we go back today, we are going to start from the 2020/2021 session. For these two sets of students that have been admitted by JAMB, we have to teach them over these periods to ensure that we meet up with the system.
“So, we are going to do the backlog of the work we have left behind. We are not going to start today and say ‘This session is 2022/2023, therefore, all these two sets of people that have been admitted by JAMB are cancelled’. We have to take another admission for the 2023/2024 session.”
Source: Thisday