source - next news. Governor Fashola promised to
pay 25 percent
Tertiary institutions
workers reject
Fashola ’s offer
Adeola Adeyemo
December 8, 2010 11:08PM
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At a meeting of the Joint Action
Committee of tertiary institutions’
workers’ unions, on Wednesday,
the staff rejected the offer of 25
per cent salary increase to them
by the state government.
The resolution followed a
meeting on Tuesday between the
state government and
representatives of the tertiary
institutions. The meeting was
chaired by the state Governor,
Babatunde Fashola. The state-
owned tertiary institutions have
been on strike for 13 weeks
following the refusal of the state
government to implement the
signed agreement between the
staff unions of the institutions
and the federal government.
However, the proposal by the
state government regarding the
agreement was still not
favourable to the striking unions.
According to Funmi Sessi, the
Chairman of the Senior Staff
Association of Nigerian
Universities, Lagos State
University Chapter, the
governor ’s offer of 25 per cent
was very far from what the
unions were expecting.
Insufficient offer
“Governor Fashola was pleading
with us to call off the strike,” she
said. “He also informed us that
he cannot pay what the federal
government has offered us but
he is going to pay 25 per cent of
it to all workers in Lagos State. ”
She said after the meeting with
the government that the unions
were most likely not going to
accept the offer, but added that
a final decision would be made
after a meeting of all the unions.
“We would go back to our
congress and discuss the
matter, ” she said. “I strongly
believe that the unions in Lagos
State would not agree. I don ’t
feel Lagos State workers are
going to sit down. ”
Adesanya Adeyemi, the
Chairman of the Academic Staff
Union, Adeniran Ogunsanya
College of Education Chapter,
corroborated Mrs Sessi ’s views.
“The governor presented a
proposal which we are going to
present to our members at the
next meeting, ” he said. “The Joint
Action Committee is meeting
tomorrow (yesterday) in LASU
and we would have a conclusion
by then. ” He, however, said that
the unions made their
displeasure known to the
governor at the meeting when
the proposal was made. “At the
meeting, we reacted to Fashola’s
offer of 25 per cent saying that it
was not acceptable and they
should do what is expected of
them as a government, ” he said.
Pressure from students
Students of the state university
are not resting on their oars over
the matter as they carried out a
peaceful protest on the
university campus Monday, and
the following day blocked the
Lagos–Badagry Expressway. The
protest, though peaceful,
disturbed some commercial
activities within the area while it
lasted. Bello Ibrahim, Chairman
of the Nigerian Association of
Nigerian Students, Lagos State
Chapter recounted the students’
involvement in the protest. “It
involved all students including
leaders of LASU Student Union
Government, ” he said. “All
student bodies are under the
umbrella of NANS. We
barricaded both sides of the
road for one hour. Our reason is
to press home our demands of
workers welfare, adequate
funding of education in Lagos
State, conducive academic
environment and immediate
resumption. Our demands are
not just for LASU alone but
other institutions in Lagos State
that are on strike like AOCOED
and MOCPED. ”

ASUU said d offer didnt meet their expectation

What is 25%? Some members of NASS takes home nothin less than 15million naira. This is a country that compalins about 18,000 naira minimum wage, this is a country that lecturers are striking up an down coz of poor pay? what is 25% increase?