FLASH: Tinubu Approves Release Of Four Months Withheld Lecturers’ Salaries

President Bola Tinubu has approved the partial waiver of the “No Work, No Pay” Order instituted against members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities when they embarked on an eight-month strike which began on February 14, 2022, and terminated on October 17, 2022.

The gesture was disclosed on Friday in a statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale.

Ngelale revealed that the waiver “will allow for the previously striking members of ASUU to receive four months of salary accruals out of the eight months of salary which was withheld during the eight-month industrial action undertaken by the union.”

However, Tinubu directed the grant of the waiver with a mandatory requirement that the Federal Ministry of Education and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment must secure a Document of Understanding establishing that this exceptional waiver granted by the President will be the last one to be granted to ASUU and all other Education Sector Unions.

Invoking the Principle of the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy, Ngelale said the president sought to “mitigate the difficulties being felt during the implementation of key economic reforms in the country, as well as his recognition of the faithful implementation of terms which were agreed upon during the deliberations between ASUU and the Federal Government of Nigeria.”