The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has warned the federal government against implementation of retroactive policies that will hamper the teacher-education system and the entire sector.
Its National President, Nkoro Asagha, gave the warning yesterday at the expanded National Executive Council meeting held at the Federal College of Education (Special) Akinmoorin, Oyo State.
Asagha lamented that the demands of the union remain unmet despite painstaking moves to dialogue with the federal government.
He said only the constitution of the Needs Assessment Committee had been met.
“This,” according to him, “is in spite of the critical role of Colleges of Education as the fulcrum of every form of education.
“Yet, the plight of the system, and those within it, which is much more crucial in the education sector of the country than those of other tertiary institutions aforesaid, rarely comes to limelight until more damage has been done. ”
He accused the Federal Ministry of Finance, through the Budget Office and the Office of the Accountant General of the federation, of seeking a path towards hasty implementation of the Integrated Personal Pay role Information System (IPPIS) imposed by the federal government without due consideration of the implications on the smooth running of the institutions.
The imposed IPPIS, Asagha noted, has not been certified full-proof as evident in the discrepancies already registered in its pilot implementation.
He warned that ”the Colleges of Education system cannot be used as guinea-pigs for quasi-economic policies in the guise of checking leakages in government expenditure profile.”
Asagha vowed that the union will not call off its strike until some of the issues critical to the development of colleges of education are fully implemented by both the federal and state governments.
They include teaching practice, non-accreditation of NCE programmes, non-release of white paper on Visitation Panel Reports, non-implementation of CONPCASS and non-institution of dual mode.
Others are non-harmonisation of conditions of service, group life insurance, non-implementation of 65 years retirement age, non-implementation and payment of peculiar allowances, poor infrastructural development and funding. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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