ASUP COMMENCES STRIKE WITH FULL EFFECT

ASUP COMMENCES STRIKE WITH FULL EFFECT

Following the commencement of nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics on Wednesday, our correspondent reports that different levels of compliance were observed in polytechnics across the country.

While there was full compliance in some polytechnics, the effect of the strike was mild in others.

In Osun, the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, and Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, the lecturers that were found on campus said they didn’t want to be seen as confrontational to the new administration in the state as they reached an understanding on some demands peculiar to lecturers in the state.

Speaking on the non-compliance, ASUP Chairman, Ospoly, Iree Chapter, Dr Jacob Adegbite, said, “We don’t want to disrupt the ongoing examinations of our part-time students. As soon as they complete their examinations, we will join the strike.”

The ASUP chapter Secretary in Esa Oke Polytechnic, Mr Goke Agbaje, said the institution would state its position on Friday as lecturers had not joined the strike.

Similarly, at the Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo State, the lecturers were seen in classrooms as it was gathered that there was no union to mobilise members to join the nationwide strike.

The lecturers said their non-compliance was because of the court matter instituted against the former leadership by some aggrieved ASUP members.

In Lagos, students were seen taking examinations in the Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos. The President of YABATECH chapter of ASUP, Nureni Yekini, stated that the examinations were being contacted by non-ASUP lecturers.

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Yekini said, “YABATECH is 99.99 per cent compliant with the directives of the national body. However, it will take effect gradually. Nonetheless, we have suspended all academic activities in the school. The exams that are in progress, of which two papers are remaining, would be concluded Thursday but those are the exams being invigilated by non-ASUP members.”

Similarly, Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo in Ondo State and Kaduna Polytechnic students were also seen taking exams with promises from lecturers that the institution would join the strike as soon as exams were over.