KADPOLY ASUP Chapter Suspended 17 Days Old Strike

The Kaduna Polytechnic Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has suspended its 17-day old strike.

The ASUP Chairman, Dr Aliyu Ibrahim,announced the suspension in a communique issued to newsmen in Kaduna on Tuesday.

Ibrahim said that the decision to suspend the strike was reached after a meeting organised by the Executive Secretary of the National
Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Dr Masaudu kazaure and management of the
polytechnic.

“The union has agreed to suspend the strike after the management of Kaduna Polytechnic agreed to commence the immediate payment
of the two months outstanding arrears of Peculiar Academic and Hazard Allowances.

“Now that the management has commenced the payment of the outstanding two months allowance arrears, the strike is hereby
suspended,” Ibrahim said.

The union had on Dec. 30, 2016, embarked on an indefinite strike over the non-payment of five months peculiar academic and hazard
allowance arrears by the institution’s
management.

The management paid three out of the five months arrears in the first week of January,but the union insisted that its members would
not return to the class until the remaining two months allowance were paid.