That way they hoped, in child-like innocence, that the industrial dispute would disappear. ASUU has been a victim of such tyranny a number of times but never succumbed.
THE Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Mejabi Yemi-Esan, on January 17, 2022 announced that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is not a trade union.
I am more willing to assume that her pronouncements are based on ignorance of the Constitution. First, the Trade Unions Act No 17 of 2005 defines a union: “Trade Union means any combination of workers or employers, whether temporary or permanent, the purpose of which is to regulate the terms and conditions of employment of workers…”
How come Dr. Yemi-Esan, despite having been a federal permanent secretary in the last one decade in strategic ministries like Information and Culture, Education, and Petroleum Resources, and three years now as Head of Service, does not know this? First, that he wants workers to have more rest. The question is: are workers in the state overworked? The answer is no because the universal eight-hour work day or 40-hour work week, is what runs in Kaduna State.
The second reason he gave is that he wants public servants to have more time to farm. This is a laughable reason because banditry, terrorism, mass destruction and theft of farm produce is so high that many professional farmers have abandoned the farms. If anything, the el-Rufai administration by its repeated mass sack of workers and increasing the burden of families, is one of the most anti-worker governments in the country. In 2021 alone, without following laid down redundancy procedures, he forced 3,000 civil servants and 7,310 local government staff into the unemployment seas without live jackets. His reason was that workers constitute only five per cent of the populace and salaries consume lots of resources.
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