PRESSINFORMAT studies that ASUU has been on strike since February over the failure of the federal authorities to satisfy its calls for.

Many makes an attempt by the federal government to make the lecturers return to the school rooms haven’t yielded outcomes as of right this moment.

Simply on Monday, labour unions commenced solidarity protests in some elements of the nation with ASUU.

Nonetheless, talking on a radio programme in Kaduna on Wednesday, El-Rufai instructed the lecturers to return to lecture rooms to be able to keep away from having their positions declared vacant, including that KASU lecturers had no motive to hitch any strike.

In line with him, ASUU had an issue with the federal authorities, not the state authorities.

He mentioned, “The Performing Vice Chancellor has assured me that they’ll resume, however I’ve requested them to search out out if they really resumed work, as a result of I initially instructed that their wage be stopped. However I used to be later instructed they didn’t be a part of the strike, so I requested that it must be investigated and those who collected wage and joined the strike might be requested to refund the wage.

“It’s because Nigeria’s regulation says ‘no work, no pay’. That is the regulation. So whoever joined the strike won’t be paid a wage. We’ve been telling the KASU lecturers that they haven’t any drawback with the State authorities. ASUU’s drawback is with the Federal authorities. Due to this fact, why will our employees who haven’t any issues with us be a part of the strike?

“If this continues, I’ll get up someday to sack all of them, I swear to God. We’ll sack all of them and declare their positions vacant on the pages of newspapers. They as soon as did the identical factor and we gave them warning, now they repeated it. I’m solely ready to obtain the report from the commissioner for training. I swear to God, we’ll sack all those who joined the strike in the event that they refuse to renew work.”