EKPOMA – The acting Vice Chancellor of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Prof. Sonnie Adagbonyi has disclosed that his administration has commenced the implementation of the’ no work no pay’ policy as directed by the state government.

Consequently, he disclosed that March salaries currently been prepared would only be paid to workers who resumed.

It would be recalled the state government recently issued a state suspending activities of all unions in the state owned tertiary institutions, ordering staff of AAU to resume immediately or risk losing their jobs.

The statement which was precipitated by the protest embarked upon by students of AAU, also directed the management of the university to implement the “no work no pay’ rule and declare vacant the position of any staff who failed to resume from strike.

Lecturers of the university had been on strike since February this year, following the national strike action embarked upon by ASUU, while other staff of the university similarly joined the national strike declared by their various unions.

The university’s vice chancellor while speaking with newsmen vowed to strictly implement the directives of the state government, noting that the university is owned by the state government and not unions.

‘As I speak to you, we are preparing the salaries for March. We are going to stick completely to the directives of government in terms of paying the salaries of staff, and we will pay those who resume.

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“The action starts now. The directive came in and we immediately followed up with a letter to all staff, notifying them formally of the directives of government. So there is no one who will pretend that he or she is not aware of that directive of government.

“So if they don’t comply, we intend to follow every directive that government has given to us. Quite a number of lecturers are doing their jobs already. They are teaching. We had a very large number of academics who taught yesterday. We hope that as the directives sink in, more workers will key into the directives, because the state government owns this university, unions don’t own this university.

“So we hope they follow through, but if they don’t follow through, directives have been given to us as to what we will do, we’ll implement them. But right now, I can tell you we have already activated the process of paying the salaries for March, and we will give it to those who come to work”, he vowed.

In his response however, the chairman of ASUU,Dr. Cyril Onogbosele, one of the suspended unions, insisted that lecturers would only resume for work when all outstanding emoluments were paid and the national strike by ASUU was called off.

He claimed that lecturers who had resumed were not members of ASUU, disclosing that they have a monitoring team going round to ensure no member of ASUU resumed.

On the suspension of unionism by state government, he said they would take legal action to challenge the ban,