The Academic Staff Union of Universities has told the Federal Government that its members will not complete lectures and examinations for the session in progress when they went on strike in February if they are not paid their backlog while on strike.
Rather, the lecturers said they would start a new session once they are ready to resume from their strike action.
The President of the union, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known in reaction to the position of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, that the Federal Government will not pay the lecturers for the period they were on strike.
Osodeke said: “If they fail to pay, we will not teach those students.
“We won’t make up for that period.
“We will start a new session (2022/2023).
“We won’t conduct examinations.
“We will start a fresh session totally
“Lecturers are not doctors that once life is gone, it can’t be brought back.
“For lecturers, we can still resume where we stopped and still teach them and make up for lost time.
“But for us, if they fail to pay, we won’t make up for the lost time.
“We won’t go back to fill backlogs.
“The schools will start a new session, in 2022/2023.
“Examinations and the period lost won’t be taught.
“If they want to do ‘no work no pay,’ we will also do ‘no pay no work.’
“If they won’t pay the backlog, we won’t teach the backlog.
“We are not like other workers.
“He doesn’t know what he is saying.”