NASU, EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY EMBARK ON INDEFINITE STRIKE

Nonacademic staff members of Ebonyi State University have embarked on an indefinite strike to protest the disengagement of sixty three workers as well as over one hundred contract and adjunct staff of the Institution.

Radio Nigeria Correspondent who visited CAS and Main Campus of the University reports that students who turned up early for official engagements were frustrated as all offices were locked.

The indefinite strike by members of Non Academic Staff Union is coming barely one month after members of the its sister union, ASUU downed tools to join their counterparts in a nationwide industrial action.

Apart from few students and operators of business centres who were seen hanging around, no worker was sighted in offices visited in the University.

A business operator at CAS Campus, Mr. GodstimeNwali noted that the strike by Non Academic Staff had worsened his economic situation considering that he was managing to survive the impact of the one embarked upon by ASUU members.

The Chairman of the Union, Comrade Emmanuel Oboh explained that they embarked on the strike because due process was not followed in the termination of appointments of the affected workers.

He further pointed out that the school management went against the agreement with the Union that no worker would be victimized as a result of staff audit exercise it conducted.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor ChigozieOgbu had while defending the action of the management, said the affected workers were given the opportunity to defend themselves over the discovery of forged certificates in their files.

Professor Ogbu pointed out that with the termination, the wage bill of the University which stood at three hundred million Naira would be reduced.

AMECHI ODO