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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may drag the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government over its members’ eight months’ withheld salaries if the government goes ahead to pay members of the parallel union, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics. Counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana, disclosed this in an interview on Monday.
The Nigerian government and the factional union of university lecturers, the Congress of University Academics (CONUA) are reportedly currently in a closed-door meeting over the withheld eight months’ salaries of the academic workers. According to Daily Trust, the agenda of the meeting was not disclosed but it was gathered that the government and the union were deliberating on the payment of the eight months’ salaries withheld sequel to the industrial action embarked upon by the members of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) between February 14 and October 18, 2022.
The Nigerian Government has directed university lecturers under the Congress of University (CONUA) to submit their details to the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation for the payment of their withheld salaries. This was made known in a letter dated January 13, 2023, and signed by the Director of Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System Department, Charles Wali. The letter was addressed to the CONUA President, Obafemi Awolowo University chapter.