Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) branch, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike [MOUAU] branch and University of Calabar branch have stated that university lecturers in Nigeria are going through frustrations.

ASUU members in the three universities are also fully participating in the one-week warning strike declared by the national leadership of the union.

UNIPORT’s branch of ASUU, yesterday in Port Harcourt, through its Vice Chairperson, Dr. Eze Wosu, accused the federal government of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerian university lecturers.

ASUU members in UNIPORT said: “The warning strike is to draw attention of government and members of the public to the frustrations university lecturers have been going through, due to pending issues in the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement and the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which has not been implemented.”

UNIPORT’s branch of ASUU also revealed that the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union had made efforts in the last 18 months to meet with representatives of government over the raised issues, stating that all the efforts had been rebuffed.

ASUU MOUAU branch also said they are joining their colleagues for the strike to force the federal government to revitalise the MoU they signed with the union since November 2013.

The stand of the union MOUAU was made known in Umuahia through a statement signed by its chairman, Dr Uzochukwu Onyebinama, and Secretary, Dr Etebom Willie.

Also, the chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Calabar branch, Dr Tony Eyang, yesterday said the application of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to universities in the country was stifling the running of the institutions.

Addressing reporters at the institution as they joined the nationwide one-week warning strike, he said the TSA was not designed with the running of the universities in mind.

Also a statement signed by Eyang and the Secretary of the Union, Dr Jonas Akung, made available to The Nation, read in part: “It is with deep pains that we address you on the agonizing state of our nation as it concerns the educational sector, particularly the university system. As intellectuals, we remain avowed to our responsibility to society, part of which is the intervention role to ensure that the ship of state does not sink.”

Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/

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