MAPOLY staff resume strike

Academic Staff of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, has resumed its strike after the expiration of two weeks it gave the authorities to meet some of its demands.

The two weeks given the state government to meet some of its demands lapsed last Friday.

The lecturers had also alleged threats to their lives. They claimed that some unregistered vehicles had been sighted within the school premises, a development they said was a breach of security arrangement.

Speaking with journalists after its congress last Friday, the Chairman of the ASUP, MAPOLY chapter, Kola Abiola, alleged that those unregistered vehicles had, on two occasions, traced him to the junction of his residence.

Abiola said the members of the union were no more willing to offer their services until the government complied with their demands.

The lecturers and the state government had been at loggerheads over the announcement of the upgrade of MAPOLY to Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology.