ASUU strike: Suswan says No work,No pay for Benue State University Lecturers

Gabriel Suswam, the executive Governor of Benue State has threatened to stop paying striking lecturers of Benue State University( BSU), Makurdi, should they refuse to return to work in the next seven days.

According to the governor, BSU is a state owned University and had no reason whatsoever to join the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), arguing that the school was not owned by the federal government.


Suswam said lecturers at BSU had been benefiting fully from the Earned Allowances for which the federal government had recently voted N30 billion and cannot justify its reason for being on strike.

Suswan gave this warning during the weekend while addressing communicant members of the Reformed Church of Christ in Nigeria, popularly known as NKST, at Achusa village in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.

He ordered the authorities of the institution to resume in the next one week, else he will apply a ‘no work, no pay’ rule.

He said, “I don’t have any problem with lecturers at the BSU. I have been paying their Earned Allowances; I do not owe them a dime, and so I don’t see any reason for their being on strike.”

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