UNIZIK LECTURES JOIN ASUU STRIKE, CALL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF AGREEMENT WITH FG

REPORTER: NDU NWANNAH

Teachers at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, have joined the one month industrial action embarked on by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to press home the implementation of its earlier agreements with the Federal Government.

The Chairman of ASUU in the University, Comrade Steve Ofuaroh, made this in an interview with Radio Nigeria in Awka.

When our correspondent visited the university, the ASUU leaders had addressed their members and the Students’ Union representatives on their decision to support the strike.

None of the lecturers was at the lecture halls to teach the students.

Speaking with Radio Nigeria, the Chairman of ASUU in the institution, Comrade Steve Ofuaroh, said the chapter had in an earlier meeting resolved to embrace the industrial action.

Comrade Ofuaroh bemoaned the working condition of lecturers in public universities in the country, while urging the Federal Government to revitalize the system through appropriate funding to enhance infrastructure development.

He said the action was a one month rolling strke and would be called off as soon as the government met its demands.

Comrade Ofuaroh urged students and stakeholders to bear with the union as its struggle was in the interest of the citizens.

A former Chairman of ASUU in the university, Professor Dennis Aribodor, explained that the teachers were unhappy with the failure of the Federal Government to implement the last Memorandum of Understanding signed with the body in the last one year.

One of the student leaders in the institution, Comrade David Obiakor, lamented the series of strikes in the country’s university system.

Comrade Obiakor urged the Federal Government to look into the demands of the teachers with a view to resolving the crisis in the education sector.