The leadership of the College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has threatened to direct its members nationwide to go to work only two days in a week in view of the difficulties the lecturers are facing following the removal of fuel subsidy and consequent arbitrary increases in the price of petrol.
COEASU vowed that the lecturers would continue to go to work twice a week until the federal government yields to its demand of a 200 percent increase in salary.
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COEASU National President, Smart Olugbeko, in a statement said the decision was reached on Tuesday 18th July 2023 at an extraordinary meeting of the Union, where it was agreed that its members can only work two days weekly
He added that an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of COEASU would be convened to ratify this decision and decide on the specific days of the week members are to go to work.
He lamented that since this arbitrary hike in fuel pump price, the leadership of the Union has been inundated by members’ complaints that they could no longer go to work as a resultant high cost of transportation.
The COEASU president, particularly called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to quickly address the issue of salary adjustment for staff of Colleges of Education, warning that the inevitable action of the Union against this hardship would have devastating effects on the students as it would lead to a prolonged academic calendar.
He said the present salary of staff of Colleges of Education was approved in the year 2010, about 13 years ago, saying what this means was Colleges of Education staffers have been on same salary since 2010 while petrol price rose intermittently from N65/N70 in 2010 to N650 in 2023.
He said the salary structure which is subject to renegotiation at 3-year interval has remained static for 13 years, skipping four due renegotiation.
He called on the federal government to urgently do the needful because the inevitable action of the Union against this hardship will have devastating effects on the students as it will lead to a prolonged academic calendar
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