Joint Unions of Plateau State Owned Tertiary Institutions (JUPTI) may resume strike following what it considers a nonchalant attitude of the state government to the plight of lecturers.
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang.
JUPTI Chairman, Victor Dawrugung, disclosed that the members sense a fishy deal among government officials, which necessitates the need to press home demands.
“We feel short-changed and undermined. This scenario will guide us in our future relationship in the industrial matters and we should not be blamed for any actions we take,” he said in Jos.
He lamented that all the promises made in May last year when the union suspended its strike upon the personal intervention of the head of service and the governor’s special adviser on special duties have not been fulfilled.
“The issues have been deliberately frustrated despite several efforts to get to those who intervened to fulfil their promise, even with written communications failed.
“Their prolonged silence is a demonstration of a lack of commitment and an engagement of political chicanery.”
Dawurung argued that a bill which seeks to repeal the law establishing the College of Arts and Sciences Technology, Kurgwi, “has not undergone the due process of legislation where a public hearing will be conducted to get inputs from stakeholders and members of the public.”
He condemned the laws which established the Plateau State College of Arts, Science and Technology, passed in 2000; and the Solomon Lar University, Bokkos, made in 2006.
