By Iffy
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has told the Federal Government that if it insists on a no-work, no-pay policy, lecturers would abandon backlogs of academic activities caused by its over seven months strike.
The union argued that the policy should not apply to them because they had picked up from where they left seven months ago, stressing that they were clearing the backlogs of work in a combined two sessions.
The union made the demands during a special congress and protest rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers state yesterday.
The lecturers, mainly from the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport), after emerging from the congress, protested the half-salary payment.
They marched along Delta Campus to the school Senate building in Abuja Campus with placards reading:
“No to pro rata salary payment; Lecturers are not casual workers; FG, stop maltreatment lecturers.”
