All members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), had been appealed to by the management of Abia State University, to pause their planned strike as the ASUU members recently threatened to go on industrial action due to unpaid 11 months salary to the staff by the school.
The management of the university had in a press release signed by Acho Elendu, the Registrar of the versity, stated that the staffs displaying industrial action isn’t the solution as it would affect the present school academic calendar. Meanwhile, the university declared it doesn’t owe the members of ASUU and had been paying their salaries on a regular bases ever since the resumption of the new management, likewise the Abia State Government, had not cease to release of monthly allowances.
Elendu further explained that his administration never owe any staff, instead his administration inherited 10 months of salary arrears from the school’s previous administration which he cleared five months of the inherited arrears and planned to pay the remaining outstanding but the ASUU members disobeyed the university’s advice by joining the 2022 8-month strike, saying their participation truncated the already planned salary arrears clearance.
The university management appealed with the staffs to engage in a dialogue with the school to save the students and and the school from the planned industrial action.
