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Nigeria: KNSG Goes Tough With Striking Lecturers
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
9 July 2008
Posted to the web 9 July 2008
Hassan a Karofi
Kano
The Kano State government has told striking lecturers in the state's tertiary institutions that unless they resume work, government would no longer negotiate with them.
The state's Commissioner for Information, Barrister Haruna Isa Dederi disclosed this to news-men during an interactive ses-sion yesterday.
Represented by the Perma-nent Secretary, the commissioner said the agreement reached with the lecturers had been fully imple-mented by the state government, and this according to him inclu-des 40% to 55% rent allowance, 20% basic salary increase, but fixed as transport allowance , 5% adoption of basic salary, but fixed as utility allowance, and 5% me-dical allowance.
He said all the agreements had been implemented since March this year, adding that for the lectu-rers to go ahead with the strike despite these gestures sugges-ted that they were being politi-cally motivated.
The striking lecturers are de-manding the payment of N331.954.287.52m as arrears for 16 months from the state govern-ment, a demand the government said it cannot meet.
He said the only demand go-vernment agreed would be stu-died was the issue of 16 months arrears and vehicle loans. This he added was not implemented because government had from the beginning said it would study it first and look at the possibility, which the lecturers agreed.
The commissioner said even the Federal Ministry of Labour which intervened had cautioned the lecturers against going on strike after seeing the series of increments and the clauses in the agreement signed between government and the union.
He therefore described the ongoing strike as illegal and against the basic standard of labour laws as enshrined in the nation's statute books.
The commissioner also accu-sed the lecturers of playing political card despite knowing that they had no legal backing for the strike.
He described the public utte-rances of members of the acade-mic staff under the joint consulta-tive forum as contrary to labour practices, adding that the union was only instigating the public against the state government through falsehood and baseless reasons.
"Government is not unaware of the political machinations being hatched and sponsored to cripple academic pursuit of our sons and daughters by certain charlatans in the name of political opposition, while history will judge us all according to our roles in the society," he added.
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The state government called on the academic staff to restrain themselves and return to work as a condition for any further negotiations.
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