Leadership (Abuja)
Ahmed Tukur
5 July 2008
Nasarawa — Nasarawa State chapter of Academic staff Union of Secondary School (ASUSS), has said that it would not take part in the ongoing nationwide strike by the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT).
Addressing a press conference yesterday at the Lafia Press Centre, Markudi Road, Lafia, the chairman of the association, Comrade Gabriel Agbashi, said the inclusion of secondary school tutors in the strike was mischievous and illegal.
Comrade Agbashi said the Central Working Committee of ASUSS viewed the action of NUT as illegal, and called on the secondary school teachers to shun the nation –wide strike as they stand to gain nothing from the demands of NUT.
According to him, the association has voluntarily withdrawn its membership from NUT and joins its rightful association which he said has been duly registered in compliance with the federal government as a trade union.
He explained that ASUSS has been approved as a full fledged trade union by the federal government through the Ministry of Labour and Productivity.
Comrade Agbashi also disclosed that without a national secondary school commission, the tutors in the secondary schools are not beneficiaries of the teachers salary scale being canvassed by NUT.
He added that secondary school tutors under the auspices of ASUSS have been clamouring for special secondary school salary structure and the constitution of a secondary schools commission.
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