The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has indicated their intention to embark on indefinite strike next week over the ongoing ASUU strike.

This was announced in Kwara State by NASU general secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi, at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the trade union in Ilorin.

According to Prince Peters, the members of the union had not been paid for two months, despite efforts to keep university system running during the ongoing ASUU strike.

“Government has not paid our salary for August and today is September 24; they owe us two months’ salary and there is no way we can continue to do this work on empty stomach, while they run round the globe on full stomach.”

“However, we think as Nigerians and parents, we don’t have to unnecessarily ground the system, but if you take this our maturity and level-headedness to mean stupidity, then, people who complain that we, in the university system have ruined the future of students by going on too many strikes imposed on us by government will have no reason not to understand, if we go on our own strike next week,” he said.

Also deliberating on the matter, the National president of NASU, Mr Ladi Iliya, blamed the National Assembly for fighting on their political interest and future at the expense of welfare of Nigerians.

The NASU president also said the National Assembly should have deliberated on issue of persistent insecurity and ASUU strike when it resumed session, describing the attitude of the legislators as shameful.

The labour leader decried issue of corruption, which he said was now an acceptable part of every transaction in the country, both in public and private sectors of the economy, adding that high cost of running the country today was a result of the endemic scourge of corrupt practices, which, he said had long bedeviled the system.