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A erstwhile statesmanlike adjutant and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ita Enang, has asked the national authorities to instrumentality the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to tribunal for contempt implicit its petition for the outgo of unpaid salaries, among different demands.
Enang, who made this known successful an interrogation yesterday successful Abuja, said the request contravened a tribunal bid obtained successful 2023, which stated that the national was not entitled to salaries portion connected strike.
ASUU began a two-week informing onslaught connected October 13, 2025, to unit the authorities to instrumentality the 2009 statement it reached with the national authorities regarding unit welfare, funding, and assemblage autonomy.
Enang said, “They are going connected onslaught to compel the national authorities to disobey the tribunal order. If you privation to spell connected strike, you person to hold that, nether the law, you person to forfeit your salaries for the period.
“In the US and the UK, determination is simply a Strike Fund, the wealth that the national pays members during a strike, due to the fact that during specified periods they are not entitled to salaries from their employers.
“I counsel ASUU to telephone disconnected the onslaught and instrumentality to enactment portion they proceed negotiations with the national government.
“The mediate crushed is for the national authorities and for ASUU to cognize that the aforesaid work that the national authorities owes to it arsenic a commercialized national and employees is the aforesaid work that the national authorities owes to the students.
“The guiltless students whose world calendar and beingness person been truncated and prejudiced.
“So, the world unit national should cognize that those who privation to spell connected onslaught should beryllium prepared to suffer their wage according to the instrumentality and they should work the judgment, peculiarly paragraph 2 successful that judgment, due to the fact that successful that judgment, 1 of the things we claimed was that the play that the workers were connected onslaught should not beryllium counted.
According to Enang, each the issues raised by ASUU person been addressed by the Ministry of Education and the national government, wondering what the national was looking for successful ordering a caller strike, insisting that it constituted contempt of court.
The erstwhile lawmaker referred to the applicable sections of the International Labour Organisation, which supported the deficiency of salaries for workers who embarked connected strike, insisting that the national government’s “no work, nary pay” directive was successful tandem with home and planetary labour laws.”
Enang continued: “The question we asked the tribunal to find connected leafage 2 of the judgement was to construe the provisions of conception 43 of the Trade Dispute Act, Capt. 8, Laws of the Federation, titled – ‘Special Provisions with Respect to Payment of Wages During Strikes and Lockouts’, specifically dealing with the rights of employers and employees and workers during the play of immoderate onslaught oregon lockout.
“Can ASUU oregon immoderate national that embarked connected onslaught beryllium asking to beryllium paid salaries, adjacent with the explicit provisions of the law?
“And to find whether ASUU members are entitled to emolument oregon onslaught wage during the play of the existent strike. The judgement was successful the national government’s favour,” helium said.
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