Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has threatened to sack all the Kaduna State University lecturers if they fail to resume work.
Recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked on a nationwide strike in February, accusing the Federal Government of being deceptive with the agreement it made with the union.
All attempts to get the lecturers back to the classroom have failed as labour unions commenced solidarity protests in some parts of the country with ASUU on Monday.
However, speaking on a radio programme in Kaduna on Wednesday, El-Rufai warned that KASU lecturers have no reason to embark on strike and threatened to replace them if they fail to resume.
According to him, ASUU had a problem with the federal government, not the state government.
He said, “The Acting Vice Chancellor has assured me that they will resume, but I have asked them to find out if they actually resumed work, because I initially instructed that their salary be stopped.
“But I was later told they didn’t join the strike, so I asked that it should be investigated and those that collected salary and joined the strike will be asked to refund the salary.
“This is because Nigeria’s law says ‘no work, no pay’. This is the law. So whoever joined the strike will not be paid a salary.
“If this continues, I will wake up one day to sack them all, I swear to God. We will sack them all and declare their positions vacant on the pages of newspapers.”