The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of
Ilorin Chapter, has declared to obey the national body and commence a two-week
warning strike on Tuesday.
Prof.
Moyosore Ajao, the Unilorin ASUU branch Chairman, confirmed to the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ilorin that Unilorin would join the industrial
action to press home their demands.
Ajao
explained that the two-week warning strike is over non-payment of salaries of
lecturers who failed to enroll in the Federal Government’s Integrated Personnel
and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
He, however, said the union would hold an emergency meeting with
members in the university on Tuesday, before proceeding with the strike the
same Tuesday.
NAN
reports that the National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has called
on affected members to embark on two weeks warning strike after the ASUU
National Executive Council meeting in Enugu.
Meanwhile, the management of Unilorin and Corporate Affairs
Director, Mr. Kunle Akogun, had declined to react to the development.
NAN
recalls that the Unilorin has prided itself on its non-interrupted academic
session for the past 17 years.
The
Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, has recently
stated that the uninterrupted academic calendar of Unilorin is “the hallmark of
the University, and it remained sacrosanct.”
He
said: “We have enjoyed it for the past 17 years and it has given us an image
that draws the largest number of admission seekers within and outside our
country to us.”
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