Calabar Zone, has reacted angrily to the order to return to the
classrooms issued to them by the Supervising Minister of
Education, Nyesom Wike, saying that the action would
worsen the strike action rather than solving the problem.
ASUU accused the minister of deceiving President Jonathan
on the crisis, alleging that Wike and some other unnamed
officials of the Government did not want the lingering
problem between the union and the Federal Government to be
resolved.
According to the zonal coordinator of ASUU Calabar zone,
Dr. Charles Ononuju, with such threat the crisis would linger
far longer than expected.
In a statement in Umuahia,. Ononuju said that the union
received with shock the pronouncement by the supervising
minister, saying the crisis could not be resolved that way.
"We received with shock the pronouncement of by the
Supervising Minister of Education, Wike, that lecturers
should resume work or be sacked", Ononuju said.
He said that the union had gone far with discussion on how to
resolve the crisis and was waiting for President Goodluck
Jonathan's reply to their letter after their meeting when the
minister came up with the "unfortunate" pronouncement.
"Sacking lecturers will not solve the problem but will
compound it. Wike should resign and come to the university
and teach. This is not the way to go if they go this way, the
crisis will not be resolved in the next 100 years", he warned.
Via: Vanguard
No comments:
Post a Comment