ASUU STRIKE: Elechi calls for scrapping of ASUU

ABAKALIKI- GOVERNOR Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State
yesterday called for the disbandment of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU in the country, following its
alleged antecedent of sabotaging the effort of governments in
the area of education and provision of infrastructural facilities
to institution of higher learning.
The governor made the call during an interactive session with
members and executives of the state chapter of the Nigerian
Union of Journalists, NUJ.
He described ASUU's action as a sabotage of the education
sector and the corporate existence of country; stressing the
need for the union to always consider the future of students
while taking steps to contribute its quota towards the
improvement of the education sector.
He said: "The major victims of this strike are not government
but the students and things are not what they should be.
"ASUU is due for proscription; the way they are going is
sabotage to the existence of the country. When I travelled I
heard that lecturers had resumed in EBSU; my plan was that if
any lecturer is to resume he or she is to renounce their
membership of the union.
"At a point in time, history must change if not we will keep
drifting; in EBSU, it is still a case of no work no pay."
On Ebonyi indigenes who were disengaged from Abia State
civil service, the governor noted that the state had no covenant
with the affected workers that they would be reabsorbed into
Ebonyi State civil service.
He noted that what was necessary was for the state to ensure
that their retirement benefits were duly paid to them.
It should be recalled that over 80 Ebonyi indigenes who were
disengaged from Abia State civil service had staged a peaceful
protest at Government House, Abakaliki, and other relevant
government agencies in the state in 2010.
The indigenes, who were mostly from Ebonyi South and
North senatorial districts of the state were seen carrying
placards with various inscriptions, such as 'a sojourner has a
home', 'we have come home for sense of belonging', 'Ebonyi
state, salt of the nation, we embrace you', East or West, North
or South, Home is better', Governor T.A. Orji says no to two
dual citizenship, His Excellency, Ebonyi state Governor,
kindly receive your people' moved around the vicinity,
chatting songs to reflect their state of despondency.
Spokesman of the group, Mr. Okoro Chibuike Uduma,
pointed out that the reason they were disengaged was because
the governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, wanted to
implement the payment of the N18, 000 minimum wage for
only indigenes of his state.
According to him, most of them were disengaged from Abia
State Local Government Education Authority, local
government councils, among others.

Via: Vanguard