The Academic Staff Union of Universities said on Wednesday that the Federal Government’s resort to blackmail would not force its members back to the classroom. In a report by Punch Newspaper, ASUU maintained that it would continue to stand by the sanctity of the agreement the Federal Government voluntarily entered into with it in 2009.
The chairperson of the union, University of Port Harcourt Branch, Prof. Antonia Okerengwo, who said this while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, explained that contrary to the Federal Government’s claim, the union was not fighting for itself, but for the revitalisation of tertiary institutions in the country.
Okerengwo expressed regret that rather than fulfill its promises to ASUU by reviving the Nigerian education sector, the Federal Government had resorted to blackmail.
The union was reacting to claims by the Federal Government that some politicians were encouraging university lecturers to disregard its appeal to call off the ongoing strike.
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