Reason We Can’t Join ASUU Strike – Kwara University
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete branch has attributed the inability of its members to participate in the ongoing industrial action to some peculiar challenges the body is going through. DAILY TRUST reports.
Dr Shehu Salahu, the chairman of the KWASU chapter of ASUU, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Information Guide Nigeria
He called on the Federal Government to do the needful let the strike end in the overall interest of the country.
According to him, the KWASU branch, presently on observer status, is following the trend and the efforts of the national ASUU to resolve the matter before the federal government.
He said, “As a young branch just admitted into the fold, KWASU has challenges owing to our funding status of zero subvention for about seven years ago.
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“The national ASUU has been fully briefed about our peculiar situation and had directed the Ibadan zone of ASUU to intervene and advise on how we can overcome the situation in our university
“Our branch has acted on the advice of the zone and had communicated to the Vice-Chancellor, the Governing Council, the Honourable Commissioner for Tertiary Education and the Visitor, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.”
“We are awaiting the outcome of the communication with the relevant authorities and will brief the zonal and national body of ASUU accordingly of developments.
“ASUU is on the ground in KWASU and as directed by the national executive, we have convened an emergency congress to brief members on developments in the last executive meeting held on Sunday, 13th March, 2022 to review the warning strike.”
