In the event that the government does not release the salaries that union members have been holding back for the time they were on strike, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Gombe State University chapter, has stated that it will withhold the exam results of students and stop supervising undergraduate and graduate projects.
WITHIN NIGERIA earlier reported that lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) were only paid for 18 working days in the month of October by the Federal Government.
The decision to withold students result was stated by the union in a statement that was released on Thursday.
The statement, which was signed by the branch chairman, Suleiman Jauro, partly read, “The Congress of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Gombe State University branch, at its meeting held today, Wednesday 2nd November 2022, received the report of the engagements between the branch’s leadership and the University administration over the release of the withheld salaries.
“After exhaustive deliberations, the Congress therefore, resolved that given the University administration’s refusal to release the August and September salaries, members shall not submit the results of the first Semester examination for the 2021/2022 session; Not continue with the supervision of both undergraduate and postgraduate projects allocated prior to the commencement of the strike action.”
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