National Publicity Secretary, Mr Clement Chirman, who disclosed this in Jos on Monday said the strike would not be called off until their demands were met by the government. He also expressed concern over the government’s attitude towards resolving the issues since the strike began two months ago.
According to him, the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union met at the Labour House in Abuja on December 12, 2013 to review the progress made so far on the negotiation with government and concluded that the government was not serious about resolving issues with the union.It was also observed that “the seeming preference for university education over polytechnic education in Nigeria by government is disappointing considering that polytechnic graduates have competed favourably well with their university counterparts at workplaces.”
He said: “The polytechnics are demanding only N20 billion as against the universities whose demands run into trillions of naira, yet the government has maintained a cold attitude to our relatively small demand.
“The government has deliberately refused to sign and release the White Paper of the visitation panel to the federal polytechnics about one year after the visitation.
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