Friday 29 November 2013

We are not bothered by FG’s return-to-work order – UNN ASUU

The Chairman of ASUU at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Dr Ifeanyichukwu Abada, said on Thursday that the lecturers were not worried by the return-to-work order by the federal government.
Abada told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka that the union was not dealing with the minister who gave the order but with President Goodluck Jonathan.
“It is unfortunate that the minister thinks that he can use his office to threaten lecturers. The December 4 ultimatum to lecturers to resume work or risk being sacked cannot work,’’ Abada said.
He said it was unfortunate that rather than pursue amicable resolution of the crisis, the minister was issuing a ‘military order’.
Also reacting to the ultimatum, the immediate past chairman of the branch, Prof. Aloysius Okolie, described the ultimatum as unfortunate and an act of over-zealousness.
“Let the minister go ahead and sack all the lecturers in the country if he has such powers
“The minister wants to start a fight he cannot finish,” said Okolie, who is also a senior lecturer in the department of political science.
He said it was against labour laws for the government to use the instrument of starvation on striking workers by invoking no-work, no-pay policy.

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