Info For Y'all Colleges Of Instruction Academic Staff Wedlock (Coeasu) Upshot 60-Day Ultimatum To Fg

COEASU: FG has lx days to run across our demands or else…

THE Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has given the Federal Government a 60-day ultimatum to run across its demands.

The President of the Union, Mr. Asagha Okoro, said “the patch would regret looking downwards on the teaching instruction sector if concrete steps are non taken to address COEASU’s grievances.”

In an exclusive interview amongst Vanguard Learning, Okoro said: “we cause got packaged all the issues facing the teaching instruction sector. If nosotros produce non reckon concrete activity inside lx days, nosotros volition employ non conventional industrial methods to brand our vocalisation heard. What nosotros are holler for for is non much; almost of these demands tin live on met amongst every bit trivial every bit N26bn.

After a 1 calendar week alarm strike, the Union met amongst regime representatives at the business office of the Minister of Labour too Productivity, Emeka Wogu, concluding Thursday.

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Outome of meeting

Okoro, speaking on the number of the coming together said: “We were told that our concerns were germane too volition live on addressed. However, the issues discussed were forwarded to the Minister of State for Education too nosotros were told that a coming together would live on scheduled amongst him every bit shortly every bit possible.”

The spousal human relationship had pointed out 17 issues to live on addressed past times the government. They include:

• “the suspicious delay inwards the unloose of the 2012 visitation white paper; 
• the refusal of colleges managements to recruit commensurate academic manpower to cater for the high dearth of academic staff to run across the contemporary challenges engendered past times the ascent population of students; 
• the non-harmonization of weather of service for academic staff of all 3rd institutions to stalk encephalon drain from the colleges of instruction to the universities; 
• the proposed selective imposition of IPPIS inwards the CoE too the polytechnics; 
• the truncation of a hitherto functional too innovative Tertiary Education Trust Fund leading to obvious regrettable gaps that compromises the critical demand for the consolidation of the gains recorded during the past times v years; 
• non implementation of CONPCASS, 65years retirement historic catamenia too Migration to CONTISS fifteen inwards or then terra firma CoE; 
• the non acquit of Needs Assessment for CoE to address students too staff needs for the enhancement of character teaching too learning.”

Others are:

• the refusal of regime to approve an Independent marker awarding status for all CoE certified past times NUC every bit beingness qualified to honor degrees inwards Teacher Education; 
• illegal imposition of Group Life Insurance underwriters too the non payment of buy the farm benefits to our deceased colleague’s families betwixt 2000 too 2013; 
• non budgetary allocations for outsourced services too the refusal of regime to nous the telephone phone for the abrogation of outsourced services too the offering of regular work to all those inwards the outsourced cadre too the payment of out-standing arrears to the melody of N2,443,278,543.96; 
• the non allocation/release of funds (N2,344,765,841) for crucial academic activities similar accreditation programmes, amid others.

Meanwhile, inwards its bid to preclude or then other strike activity past times COEASU, the Minister of Labour too Productivity, Wogu, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding amongst COEASU which charged the Federal Ministry of Education to, every bit a affair of urgency, run across amongst the Union to create upward one's nous or then of the issues at stake.

At the halt of the Th coming together aimed at reassessing the extent of the implementation of the understanding reached on the 30th of August 2013 betwixt the Ministry of Education too COEASU, the MoU states:
that all novel issues tabled at the mediatory coming together volition besides live on sent to the Supervising Minister of Education every bit they are specific administrative issues inside the Sector which require tackling;

That the Federal Government appreciates the time out of the 7 days working strike embarked upon past times the Union due to the intervention of the Federal Ministries of Labour too Productivity too Education on 30th August 2013;

That the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation volition demonstrate the workings of the IPPIS platform to the Executive of COEASU on Oct 29, 2013;

That inwards consideration of the to a higher house conciliatory coming together which is at the illustration of the Minister of Labour too Productivity, the coming together shall reconvene afterward lx days to consider progress made inwards abide by of the outstanding issues at 1 time referred dorsum to the Federal Ministry of Education.

Source: Vanguard News

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