The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended its earlier plans to embark on strike, over pending industrial matters with the Federal Government.

The union attributed the decision to shelve the strike as a result of appeals by the government and commitment to resolve the issues in dispute. President of ASUP, Usman Dutse made this know in a statement on Sunday, where he explained that the National Executive Council, (NEC) meeting of the union would hold at the end of November, 2018 to appraise progress by government on their pledge.

It would be recalled that ASUP had on October 2nd, 2018 issued a 21-day ultimatum to draw government attention to urgent need to attend to the sector that has suffered under funding which has led to under growth in all aspects of the system.

Comrade Dutse lamented that states like Abia, Adamawa , Benue, Edo, Imo, Kogi, Ondo, Ogun Osun, and Oyo are owing their workers’ salaries running up to ten months, while the regulatory body and the respective governing councils have been recalcitrant, as well as trampling on their members right.

•Excerpted from Independent report