Adedokun Waliyu 
Gombe State governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has said the state government will replicate the ‘no-work-no-pay’ policy of the federal government, if lecturers at the Gombe State University (GSU) refused to resume classes as directed by the university management.
He stated this while answering a question at the weekend during a town hall meeting, ‘A Fada A Cika,’ organised by the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between the governor, electorate and other residents of the state.
Yahaya said the state government had been paying salaries promptly for the past six months that lecturers at the GSU had joined the strike.
He lamented that the government had engaged the management of the university and the GSU chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) with a view to ending the strike but to no avail.
When asked about the backlog of gratuities for retired workers, the governor said his administration inherited N25 billion gratuities debts from previous administrations.
He explained that his administration was into discussions with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and other stakeholders, to reduce the debts in the remaining nine months of his first term.
The governor, however, noted that since his assumption of office, civil servants and pensioners received their salaries and pension, respectively, between 25th and 27th of every month.
