The Federal Government of Nigeria’s Committee on renegotiation of the 2010 agreements with the Unions in the Polytechnic sector has commenced meetings with the various leaders of the Unions to ensure industrial Harmony and development.
The Unions include Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics ASUP, Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics SANU and Non-Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics.
The Chairman of the Federal Government Re-Negotiation Committee who is also the Chairman Governing Council of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic Birnni Kebbi, Waziri Bulama, said at the end of the renegotiation, that a framework for the implementation of the agreements would be developed.
He explained that some of the problems of the Unions are on infrastructure, staff issues, policy that needs reforms.
He stressed that for Polytechnic education to get the pride of place and receive the desired attention to play the role it ought to play in terms of providing skills for the productive sector to address the socio-economic challenges facing the nation government and other stakeholders must play a role.
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Comrade Anderson Ezeibe said some of the key demands of the Union are repositioning technological education for national development in Nigeria, laws and status, supervision and regulation, funding for the sector, dichotomy between HND and degree holders and condition of service.
