BREAKING: #ASUU Threatens To Return To The Trenches—-The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to respect the agreement both had which led to the suspension of the 8-month-old strike by paying the outstanding arrears owed lecturers and resolve all the issues that led to the last strike.
The ASUU Chairman, University of Port Harcourt, Dr. Darlington Uzoma, made the call during a special congress and protest rally at the university campus on Monday, while academic activities were temporarily paralysed.
After the special congress attended by the Port Harcourt zonal chairman of ASUU, Prof. Stanley Ogoun, the lecturers protested round major sections of the institution against all forms of ill treatment meted out to lecturers by the government.
They sang solidarity songs with placards, marched from the ASUU secretariat at the Delta Park of the university through the main entrance of school, to the Senate building, the Agriculture building and returned to the union’s secretariat.
Some of the inscriptions on the placards read, ‘Lecturers deserve their full wages’, ‘No to casualization of university lecturers’, ‘Federal Government stop maltreating lecturers’, ‘no nation can properly develop without teachers’, among others.
Addressing newsmen, the ASUU Chairman, Uniport chapter, Darlington Uzoma, said the protest was to express the union’s dissatisfaction over recent attempts by the Federal Government to reduce the university lecturers to daily paid casual workers.
He said there was nowhere in the world where university lecturers are treated like casual workers like what is being experienced in Nigeria.
“After the strike was suspended following an order by the National Industrial Court, we have come back to resume our duties. And we are currently doing all the arrears of work that we should have done during the period of strike”, he said.
