Ijaw Group Blasts ASUU Over NDU Strike

Concerned by the prolonged industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Niger Delta University (NDU) Chapter, the United for the Educational Advancement of the Ijaw Nation (UEAIN), has added its voice to the call on ASUU to accept the 50 per cent salary payment offer from the Bayelsa State Government and return to the classroom....


In a statement issued by the National President and Secretary of the body, Dr. kurobo Ikasakumo and Mr. James Diebimo, the group urged ASUU, NDU chapter, to take a cue from other institutions in the country facing similar challenges, but had decided to embrace dialogue, instead of resorting to industrial action.

Making reference to the developments at the University of Ibadan, the Kwara state University, University of Abuja, to mention but a few, the group noted that, members of ASUU and NASU of the affected institutions had been on 50 to 70 percent salary since February, this year.

While the lecturers of the affected institutions, down played their individual interests, it was sad to note that, the lecturers of NDU were playing politics with the future of the students entrusted in their care.

The group advised any lecturer that wanted to play active politics, to leave the academic environment, rather than hiding under the umbrella of the union. It said if other classes of workers in the state could demonstrate a reasonable level of understanding by accepting the 50 percent term of payment, as proposed by the government, it wonders why the case of ASUU is being seen as special.