The lecturers made the threat on Friday during the peaceful protest, while denouncing the maltreatment of lecturers through the “no work no pay” policy and intimidating court orders that forced the lecturers back to classes.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the body of Nigerian university lecturers, on Friday protested in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, while threatening to resume its industrial action over pro-rata and unpaid salaries.
The lecturers made the threat on Friday during the peaceful protest, while denouncing the maltreatment of lecturers through the “no work no pay” policy and intimidating court orders that forced the lecturers back to classes.
SaharaReporters had reported that the university lecturers embarked on a strike action on February 14, to force the federal government to implement the 2009 agreement it signed with its umbrella body ASUU on how to fund the university education in the country.
The strike lasted for over eight months before it was suspended on October 14.
However, the protesting lecturers on Friday insisted that if the Federal Government remained adamant to their plight, the National Executive Council of the union would go back to the drawing board, assess all the issues and take the necessary actions.
The ASUU Branch Chairman, of the University of Abuja, Kassim Umaru, who led the protesting lecturers called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to honour the union’s demands.
The body of the lecturers also called on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila to honour the agreements reached with the union.
It however maintained that it would not give up until the Federal Government did the needful by paying withheld salaries and also honouring the agreement signed in 2020.