The President, Academic Staff Amalgamation of Polytechnics, Charles Asomugha, has verbalized there is no cessation in visual perception for the 11-month old strike embarked upon by the amalgamation since last year, verbally expressing that the regime had yet to implement the accedence the lecturers had with it.
Asomugha verbalized the action of the Federal Regime was surprising despite having reached an acquiescent with it.
He integrated that the only thing ceasing the lecturers from calling off the strike was the non-implementation of the accedence.
The amalgamation bellwether, in an interview with our correspondent during the week, verbalized, “Nothing is genuinely transpiring now. We are still waiting on the regime. We have already reached a construal with them, but we are still waiting on them for replication.
“We were supposed to hold a meeting with them on June 24, 2014 but the minister of edification and other regime officials did not turn up. That meeting was rescheduled for July 1, but they still did not turn up.
“The quandary right now is with the regime. It’s as if they are not disposed to peregrinate to any length for us. We had reached a point in one of the core issues where what we were expecting was the date of implementation of the accedence we had.
“But then, the Salaries and Wages Income Commission just came to frustrate everything. I do not even ken what to call all these – whether it is manipulation or deliberate deception. We genuinely do not ken what to term it. Somehow, the regime has devised the expedient of frustrating any headway in the discussions.”
He described the strike as hapless, integrating that it had led the lecturers and students to dejection and hopelessness. Asomugha verbally expressed, “It is quite hapless. Nobody is jubilant about the strike. The students are frustrated, we are withal frustrated. And it is genuinely pitiable for the system. It is woeful for the tertiary inculcation, especially polytechnic edification in the country. It is frightening.
“We are still hopeful of a future meeting, but up till now, there is no endeavor by the regime to culminate this strike.”
A student of The Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Yemi Oyeleke, verbalized he had never been so frustrated in life up till this time.
He verbally expressed, “The strike has done an abundance of damage to my perspicacity. There were times I forgot the spellings of simple English words.”
