You Can’t Get Paid For Job Not Done – FG Tells ASUU

GIOTV reports that the Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah has slammed the Academic Staff Union University (ASUU) over the lingering impasse between the union and the Federal Government.

Opiah, while expressing dismay over the more than the 200 days old strike embarked upon by ASUU since February 14th, 2022, said the Federal Government has done his best to resolve the issues raised by ASUU but they have been adamant to call off the strike.

The minister who spoke when he visited Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State said the ‘no work no pay’ policy stands.

He said, “The Federal Government cannot pay lecturers for what they did not work for. The strike has continued to portray the country in a bad light and has succeeded in causing more pains for parents and students.”

He said that the federal government has done so much on infrastructural development in all higher institutions across the country.

He charged the Vice chancellor of FUL Prof. Olayemi Akinwumi to appeal to lecturers to come back to work adding that, there prolonged stay at home has done more harm than good to the future of Nigerian Students.

“Except that, now that ASUU want to be paid for all the six month that they were absent from duty. And the Federal Government is saying no we cannot pay for those days you did not work. For once, let us activate the principle of no work no pay which is natural. It is only a thief that goes to eat where he didn’t work.

“And so if there should be any appeal for Federal Government to do otherwise, Lecturers should come back to the class room to beg and appeal and renegotiate because this thing is no longer funny,” he added.