Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has insisted that lecturers will not be paid for work not done in line with the ‘No work no pay’ policy.
This came after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Adamu said this while commenting on the protest of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over pro-rata October salary payment.
He said the position of the federal government was that the Lecturers “would not be paid for work not done.”
The minister, while reacting to the allegation made by the President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodoke, that paying the lecturers on pro-rata basis was a ploy to make them casual workers, said the government had no such plan.
“If you understand what casualisation means, you know that its impossible to casualise a university lecturer, we only paid them for the number of days they worked, from the day they suspended their strike…Nobody can make University lecturers casual workers,” he said.
On the threat that lecturers were considering a one-day action to protest government’s action, Adamu said he was not aware.