{"id":101407,"date":"2022-11-16T17:33:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101407"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T16:33:01","slug":"we-wont-pay-lecturers-for-service-not-rendered-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/we-wont-pay-lecturers-for-service-not-rendered-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"We won&#8217;t pay lecturers for service not rendered &#8211; FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1749670533301807117\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nDespite the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) protest against payment of alleged incomplete October salary, the Federal Government, on Wednesday, insisted it would not pay for works not done.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, expressed Federal Government\u2019s position on renewed face-off with ASUU after the week\u2019s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister while responding to questions on the insistence by the lecturers to embark on a work-free-day in protest of the Federal Government\u2019s decision to pay its members pro-rata, accusing government of attempting to turn university lecturers to \u2018casual workers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu said: \u201cThe strike has been called off and the government has paid them what is due to them. I think that\u2019s the position of the government; that it is not going to pay anyone for work not done and they only did, I think, the number of days that they were paid.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cHow can anybody make a university lecturer a casual\u2026 Do you know the meaning of casual worker? If you know the meaning of the casual worker, it is impossible to make a university lecturer a casual worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the Federal Government would be willing to take steps to assuage the ASUU and starve off further hostilities, the Minister said: \u201cI don\u2019t understand, is there any problem now?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Told they planned work-free-day, he said: \u201cOh? Okay, I\u2019m not aware. I\u2019m not aware. That they are going on strike? No, nobody has told me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s wait till the work-free-day comes, then I\u2019ll find out the details and we\u2019ll discuss, you can ask me then, but at the moment, I\u2019m telling you honestly, I do not know that there is a problem\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to shed light on the claim by the President of the ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodoke, that the union only had an agreement with the Minister of Education and Speaker Femi Gbajabiamiala, not with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Adamu said: \u201cI cannot add any light on something that I did not know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd since they said they have no business with the Minister of \u2026 Did they show you the agreement? 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