Strike: ASUU members are dishonest, misleading Nigerians – FG

The Federal Government of Nigeria has warned the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to stop disobeying the interlocutory injunction given by the National Industrial Court (NICN), which restrained the union from further action.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, handed the warning in a statement signed over the weekend by the ministry’s Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, Olajide Oshundun.

He said a new directive by the union, exhorting its members to continue with the industrial action was lawless, and that the government frowns at it

He also warned that the union risks consequences of contempt of court order.

Part of the statement read: “The union is dishonest and misleading its members and the general public that it has filed an appeal as well as a stay of execution of the order of National Industrial Court on September 21, 2022, though it has none of this. “Rather, ASUU only filed an application for a permission to appeal the order. It also attached to the application, a proposed notice of appeal which it intends to file if the leave to appeal is granted. The application for a stay of execution as of this moment has not even been listed for hearing. Where then is ASUU coming from?

“It is, therefore, contemptuous, dishonest and misleading for the union to tell its members that it has not only appealed the interlocutory injunction by the National Industrial Court, directing it to call off strike and return to work, but that it also has a stay of execution”, it said.