Mapoly ASUP Suspends Strike Action

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta chapter, has announced the suspension of its over three months’ strike.

The lecturers, however, kept mum on whether they would conduct the suspended second semester examination, which was scheduled to commence on September 18, 2017.

The suspension was announced by the Chairman of the ASUP in the institution, Kola Abiola, after the congress the lecturers held on the campus on Wednesday.

While he said the meeting addressed the crisis between the state government and the union, he added that there were pressures from prominent indigenes of the state on the union to suspend the action.

He said, “The congress decided to suspend the strike following the pressures it received from many concerned prominent personalities in the state over the logjam.”
It would be recalled that crisis erupted as a result of the government’s plan to upgrade MAPOLY to the Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology, Abeokuta and the establishment of the Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia.

Abiola, however, said the union was hopeful that its demands would be met by the state government which would encourage it to conduct the suspended examination.

One of their demands is that the state government should pay the lecturers their backlog of salaries, since the industrial action began in September.

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