Sacked Adamawa Poly ASUP officials take case to Assembly

Four lecturers sacked by the Adamawa State Polytechnic have petitioned the state assembly to protest against their sack, while demanding the lawmakers intervention that they be re-instated them with their full benefits and entitlements.

The management of the polytechnic, had on 17th February, 2016 issued letters of termination of appointment to Dr. Colman Tizhe Goji, Chairman of the institution’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Polytechnic (ASUP) and three other union officials, over a 2014 labour impasse between the union and the institution’s management.

The four in a joint petition seeking the intervention of the state legislators, addressed their complaints of unlawful termination of their appointment to the Chairman House Committee on Public Petitions, Ethics and Privileges.

The petition dated 23rd February, 2016 but made available to the press on Thursday, urged the assembly, to intervene and direct the polytechnic management and the ministry of higher education, to reinstate them with their full benefits and entitlement.

The assembly had in August 2014 waded into the dispute between ASUP officials and the institution’s management, halting plans by the to sack the officials, over a strike action called by ASUP, demanding better welfare for her members.

But the institution while revisiting the matter, curiously terminated the appointment of labour leaders, based on the report of a disciplinary committee allegedly approved and set up by the Adamawa state commissioner of Higher Education in the state Alh. Ahmed Rufai.