CEOAFRICA.com gathered that the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), has began a seven-day sensitisation and mobilisation strike nation- wide.

The warning strike was to prepare for industrial action which will happen should government fails to address the demands of the union.

According to Mr Isa Yunusa, the branch Chairman of the body in Federal College of Education, Okene branch, the strike was to bemoan the state of education sector, besides their demands which include the attendant implication of government’s refusal to come to terms with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)” on students and the entire education sector, particularly colleges of education which have been the most neglected of the higher education institutions.”

Parts of the demands is the Federal Government’s encroachment on the core mandate of TETfund, “and the deliberate attempt to cripple its hitherto efficiency and effectiveness by the non-release of the 2013 intervention and the refusal to appoint a substantive executive secretary for it.”

The union would go on strike because of the determination to impose on the colleges of education “ with impunity the obnoxious policy of Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS).”

He also said the non-payment of death benefits accruable from Group Life Insurance policy which he said, was a direct consequence of the centralisation of the policy by the Federal Government are among their demands.

Members were directed to take this warning strike seriously by staying out of official functions for seven days.