The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to query universities that have failed to comply with its decision to remain on strike while negotiations with the Federal Government continue.
ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, made the threat in Abuja on Monday while speaking with newsmen.
Osodeke said, “We will punish those who have pulled out from our ongoing strike the appropriate way.
“We will ensure we query them and we will follow it up the appropriate way. We have even queried some of them in accordance with the union’s rules”.
It will be recalled that ASUU has been on strike for the past five months to press home its demands.
The striking lecturers’ demands include funding of the revitalisation of public universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution and promotion arrears.
Others are the renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and the inconsistency in Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.
It was, however, observed that since the union embarked on strike, some of its members have pulled out of the ongoing strike to resume academic activities.
Osodeke noted that since the last Tripartite Plus meeting called by the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, on the ongoing industrial action over a month ago, there has been no other meeting.
He said nothing concrete came out of the last meeting that was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“We have not been called for any other meeting since that time and the government did not offer us anything, they just asked us to meet with the committee,” he said.
He, however,  said that the union will be meeting with the government within the week.