Despite management’s order for students to return to class, ASUU-Nasarawa State University’s Keffi branch has vowed to continue the union’s nationwide strike.
The branch’s chairman, Dr. Samuel Alu, spoke to reporters on Friday in Keffi and called the management’s directive foolish and a betrayal.
He swore that the lecturers at the university would not be coerced into going back to their classrooms.
The union is well aware of the threats, blackmail, and propaganda spread about the struggle by some sources.
“It goes without saying that we are aware of and fully anticipating the ruses to undermine our struggle, and we are well prepared for it.
“ASUU-Nasarawa is one and the same, just to be clear. As a result, it is impossible to imagine how ASUU at NSUK operates independently of other ASUU-Nasarawa branches.
It is fully running in accordance with the national secretariat’s instructions, he said.
Alu was shocked that the university’s administration issued the order knowing full well that ASUU-Nasarawa had filed an appeal against the National Industrial Court’s order requesting that its members return to the lecture halls.
In light of the aforementioned, compelling university professors to return to their classes would be illegal, show a flagrant disregard for the law, and could amount to contempt of court.
The vice chancellor and his lieutenants will be the ones to instruct the students if the university reopens while ASUU-Nasarawa is still on strike, Alu emphasised.
He thanked parents and children for their patience and fortitude, saying that they had made sacrifices for the future and to prevent the school system from collapsing completely.
“As far as the ASUU-Nasarawa State University is concerned, we are on a complete, all-encompassing strike that will last forever.
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“ASUU-Nasarawa State University will stay on strike until the national body suspends the strike when all of our demands have been met by the federal government,” I am stating here,” Alu added.
Mr. Bala Ahmed, the university’s registrar, asked students to return to class in a statement.
Since February 14, ASUU has been on strike to demand that the Federal Government uphold the 2009 agreements.
The agreements addressed revision of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, the release of funding for university revitalization, and the distribution of Earned Academic Allowances for teachers.
Additionally, it demands that professors not be paid by the Federal Government using the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System in the same manner as other employees.
The union is requesting that the government pay its members through the University Transparency and Accountability Solution platform, which was created by the universities themselves, rather than the IPPIS. (NAN).
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