Ogunyemi disclosed this on Saturday while featuring on
Channels TV’s 2022: In Retrospect, an End-Of-Year special programme.
Recall that ASUU embarked on industrial action that lasted
over eight months in 2022 following demands for improved welfare and owed
earned allowances, among others.
However, ASUU ended the strike following the Industrial
Court’s judgement asking its members to return to work.
But the Federal Government only paid the lecturers half
their salaries for the month of October, citing its no-work, no-pay policy as
the reason.
Ogunyemi said the Federal Government is insensitive to the
plights of ASUU and noted that it is an injustice not to pay its members in
arrears as they work in arrears as well.
“We must understand what triggers strike action. I don’t
think anybody can promise you there will be no strike (in 2023),” Ogunyemi
said.