ASUU’s fresh demands act of sabotage, says Don

ASUU’s fresh demands act of sabotage,
says Don
on november 29, 2013 at 1:34 pm in news
Uyo – A Lecturer at the University of Calabar, Dr
Edidiong Ebitu, has described the new demands by
the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as
an act of sabotage of the education sector.
Ebitu made the declaration on Friday in an interview
in Uyo.
The teacher, who is a senior lecturer in the
Department of Marketing in the university, said he
was in support of the Federal Government’s
directive that lecturers should resume classes.
“The various branches of ASUU had already voted
to resume classes. The over four-months strike has
done enough damage to the system.
“The president had made reasonable concessions,
so ASUU should resume for other things to fall in
place,” he said.
However, reacting to Ebitu’s views, the Secretary of
the University of Uyo Branch of ASUU, Dr Aniekan
Brown, debunked the claim that ASUU was making
fresh demands.
“ASUU is not making fresh demands, ASUU is
asking for the implementation of 2009 agreements.
“If any ASUU member says ASUU is making fresh
demands, I doubt if that person is an ASUU
member, that person is not informed,” Brown said.
ASUU is demanding among other things, immediate
payment of all outstanding salary arrears and
allowances of members withheld during the strike.
The union is also demanding a written commitment
from the president that N225 billion will be
committed to funding universities annually for the
next four years.
The Federal Ministry of Education had on Nov. 28,
directed the authorities of federal universities to re-
open classes immediately and to treat lecturers
who refused to resume work as having resigned.
(NAN)
Do you think ASUU’s fresh demands act of
sabotage act of sabotage?