Academic
Staff Union of Nigerian Universities [ASUU], 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.
Vanguard.
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