The non -initial professors protest poor pension benefits, Blast FG for university negligence

Tuesday organized a protest on a protest on a protest on what they described how the retirement services N150.000 N150.000 which described as retirement performance N150.000 “shameful.

The protest, which lasted for about an hour on the institution campus, designed dozens of teachers who denounced the government’s treatment of intellectuals despite their decades of service to the country.

Giving himself to the demonstrators, the president of Unimaid Asuu, dr. Abubakar Mshelia said that it was an insult that the professors who had spent over 40 years in classrooms had been retired on a lean monthly retirement of N150,000 in a country that fought the inflation of over 21 %.

“This is not just a question of work; it is a national misfortune,” said Mshelia. “A country that deals with its intellectuals with this contempt cannot expect significant progress.

“Our members had to be wage backward backgrounds between 25 and 35 % of the wage reward, while the promotion arrears have remained unplugated in many universities for over four years”.

The leader of the Union also sentenced the federal government for the approval of nine new private universities despite having previously announced a moratorium for the establishment of new institutions.

He described the move as “hypocrisy” led by acquired interests, insisting on the fact that Asuu would not have supported further university licenses when the existing ones remained subfinited and short of staff.

Mshelia also criticized the government’s refusal to sign the 2009 renegotiated agreement with Asuu, his inability to put the third -party deductions back and his controversial loan loan scheme of the staff of the tertiary institutions, which said that the union has rejected perfectly.

The Asuu branch also strongly opposed the renomination of an initiative after the deceased president Muhammadu Buhari, describing the move as a provocative and non -democratic.

“The decision to rename the University of Maiduguri as the University of Muhammadu Buhari is a clear violation of the principle of university autonomy and a serious affront to academic freedom, institutional integrity and democratic governance,” said Mshelia.

He warned that if the federal government continued to ignore the difficult situation of university teachers, industrial actions would be inevitable.

“The strikes are never our first choice, but our last resource when all the negotiation avenues are exhausted. If the government continues on this path, the responsibility will stop exactly on the shoulders,” he added.

The protest comes between the growing frustration in the education sector, in which the unresolved disputes between the government and the teachers have repeatedly interrupted academic calendars throughout Nigeria.

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