Education

Kaduna varsity lecturers threaten strike over welfare concerns

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at Kaduna State University (KASU) has resolved to embark on a two-week warning strike over unresolved issues bothering on welfare.

The union stated this in a notification letter addressed to KASU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Musa, and signed by its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu and Secretary, Dr Peter Waziri.

In the letter, the lecturers stated that the decision to embark on a strike was reached at the union’s congress held in Kaduna on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

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The lecturers explained that the strike was to protest non-payment of five months’ salaries from May to September 2022, 60 per cent of September 2017, and other withheld salaries of academic staff.

Other unresolved issues, according to the union, include Earned Academic Allowance from 2018 to date, pension remittances from 2009 to 2019, and Group Life Insurance for deceased academic staff from 2019 to date.

“The warning strike shall be embarked on by members in KASU, following approval by the ASUU National Executive Council Meeting, scheduled to hold in the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, between August 2 and August 4, 2024,” the lecturers noted.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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