ASUU may sue FG over withheld salaries

The Academic Staff Union of Universities may drag the federal government over its members’ eight months’ withheld salaries.

Counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana, told newsmen that ASUU will resort to the court, once the government goes ahead to pay members of the parallel union, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA)

Reports had earlier indicated that the FG was set to pay the withheld salaries and allowances of lecturers under the aegis of CONUA.

Falana said the payment will form the legal basis for the government to pay ASUU its dues or face court action.