Academic Staff Union of Universities has accused the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, of persecuting its members and warned him to stop his ‘unpatriotic practices’.
This contained in a statement the Chairman of the union, University of Jos chapter, Dr Lazarus Maigoro, issued on Saturday.
The statement read in part, “ASUU wants to bring to the attention of the Nigerian public the deliberate, systematic and unpatriotic actions of the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on the future of education in Nigeria.
“Mr Ahmed Idris, for all intents and purposes, is bent on withholding the salaries of over 1,000 members of ASUU spread across the country with more than 100 of such lecturers being members of our branch in University of Jos.
“Mr Ahmed Idris, as it were, wants to preside over the consecutive burial of these ASUU members and their families for participating in the last strike.
“More worrisome is the fact that, while the AGF is refusing to pay these salaries, his staff in the OAGF are busy calling the affected lecturers and insisting they have to register with IPPIS before they are paid; some are even asked to forfeit parts of their salaries in order to be paid.”