The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, has written a protest letter to the Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, threatening to resume strike which was suspended four months ago.
COEASU suspended her industrial action on December 5, 2018, having accepted government’s offer to release the sum of 15 billion Naira as palliative intervention to cushion the effects of the decay in infrastructure in public colleges of education.
The letter signed by COEASU President, Nuhu Ogirima, said other concerns are the non-payment of peculiar academic allowance, implementation of tertiary salary scale, contiss 15 on lower cadre staff and non-continuation of stalled renegotiation of 2010 COEASU-FG agreement.
The Union said while it would be hesitant in making the presumption of the current Federal Government administration’s non-commitment to education, teacher-education in particular, it said it reserves the right to seek redress on the persistent insensitivity to meeting its demands.
COEASU reminded government that its concern is further heightened by the refusal of other departments of government in fulfilling the much-awaited obligation on their parts, citing the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation for the non-issuance of an awaited circular on a new cadre purportedly created to cater for HND, the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation for refusing to remit to the Union check-off dues and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, for sustained bias against the colleges of education.
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