The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Moshood
Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta chapter, says it has suspended its over three
months’ strike.
The lecturers, however, kept mum on whether they
would conduct the suspended second semester examination, which was scheduled to
commence on September 18, 2017.
The suspension was announced by the Chairman of
the ASUP in the institution, Kola Abiola, after the congress the lecturers held
on the campus on Wednesday.
While he said the meeting addressed the crisis
between the state government and the union, he added that there were pressures
from prominent indigenes of the state on the union to suspend the action.
He said, “The congress decided to suspend the
strike following the pressures it received from many concerned prominent
personalities in the state over the logjam.”
Crisis erupted as a result of the government’s
plan to upgrade MAPOLY to the Moshood Abiola University of Science and
Technology, Abeokuta and the establishment of the Ogun State Polytechnic,
Ipokia.
Abiola, however, said the union was hopeful that
its demands would be met by the state government which would encourage it to
conduct the suspended examination.
One of their demands is that the state government
should pay the lecturers their backlog of salaries, since the industrial action
began in September.
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