KIf the teachers at Kaduna State University (KASU) continue to participate in the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has vowed to fire them all.
According to bendelnews, ASUU has been on strike since February because the federal government has not complied with its requests.
As of today, the government has made numerous attempts to force the instructors back into the classrooms without success.
Just on Monday, labour unions in various regions of the nation started protesting in support of ASUU.
El-Rufai, however, stated that the lecturers should return to the classroom in order to prevent having their positions declared vacant on a radio programme in Kaduna on Wednesday. He also added that KASU lecturers had no reason to join any strike.
He said that the federal government, not the state government, was the source of the ASUU's issues.
He continued, "The Acting Vice Chancellor has promised me that they would resume, but I have asked them to see if they have started working again since I originally directed that their salary be suspended.
However, I later learned that they had not participated in the strike, so I requested that the matter be looked into and that anyone who received pay while participating in the strike be required to return it.
This is due to Nigerian legislation, which states that "no work, no pay." That is the rule. Therefore, none of the strikers will receive a salary.
We have been informing the lecturers at KASU that they have no issues with the State government. The issue facing ASUU is the federal government. So why would our employees, who have no issues with us, join the strike?
"I swear to God, if this keeps on, I'll wake up one day and fire them all. All of them will be fired, and their vacant positions will be announced in the newspaper.
They previously done the same thing, and after we warned them, they did it again.
All I'm waiting for is the commissioner of education's report. If strikers refuse to return to work, I pledge to God that we will fire everyone who participated in the strike.