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Reasons for Rejecting the ASUU Audit Report

Reasons for Rejecting the ASUU Audit Report

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Reasons for rejecting the ASUU audit report

The Academic Staff Union of Universities’ four-year audit report was purportedly rejected, but the Federal Ministry of Labour has responded to those claims.

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Olajide Oshundun, the labour ministry’s spokesperson, explained further in an exclusive interview on Friday that ASUU ignored a letter from the ministry requesting an explanation for why the audit report was not submitted on time.

The PUNCH had been the only publication to report that the Federal Government had refused to pay ASUU members’ check-off dues for November 2022 despite the fact that pro-rata salaries had been paid for the month.

The spokesperson for the labour ministry confirmed the news and said it was a decision made after careful consideration.

But while intervening in the matter, the Nigeria Labour Congress, in a letter to the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, insisted that ASUU made plans to submit the audit report but that it was not received by the labour ministry.

Speaking with our correspondent as regards the allegations of the NLC, Oshundun said, ” Yes, it is true the audited report was not received from them, and that was because they didn’t respond to the ministry’s initial letter, asking them to state the reason they refused to submit the audited report for four years. “The ministry’s letter is explicit on this; they refused to submit their report as and when it was due, and we asked for explanations.

The next thing they did was quickly submit the report instead of replying to us in written form. And let it be clear that it was when the ministry wrote and threatened that their certificate of registration might be withdrawn that they rushed to submit it. “What they were expected to have done was respond to the letter first and plead with the ministry for the late submission of the documents.

Because if the ministry should take it from them just like that, other trade unions may follow suit and just do things at their own will. Meanwhile, there is a law guiding all of these processes. “The ministry didn’t request the documents again but only wrote to get explanations for their failure to do the needful. “I can also tell you the matter is already in court, so any further inquiry is sub judice.”

 

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