Benue state governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, yesterday directed the management of Benue state University, Makurdi to reopen the institution and announced the Decisions of the state government to suspend payment of salaries to lecturers and sack lecturers that failed to comply.

The BSU lecturers joined their counterparts across the country to observe the nationwide strike action declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which commenced since June, 2013. They have refused to go back to work despite several pleas by the governor.

However, Suswam said  that members of the union in the BSU have deliberately refused to call off the strike even as the state government has made several appeals for the lecturers to consider the interest of the students.  He directed the management of the university to reopen the institution with immediate effect or risk being sacked.

Suswam made this declaration at Government House, Makurdi during an urgent meeting with the management of the university led by the vice chancellor, Prof. Charity Angya.The VC was represented by the deputy vice chancellor, administration, Prof Nicholas Ada. According to Suswam, “it is important that you as management come because you have refused to reopen the university. I am going to call the Governing Council and insist that they open the university but the first thing I am going to do is that you will not have your salaries paid beginning from this month and any staff who refuses to come back to work would have his or her appointment terminated and nobody is going to collect salary arrears. And so I needed you people to know before you hear it announced on the radio”.

“I am also aware that there was a court case that was instituted against the university by the state government over strike and we are going to take that case up and make you face it because we have completely run out of patience and there is no basis while the children will continue to be on strike,” Suswam said.

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yunglykmine: Breaking News: Suswam Directs BSU To Open, Declares Sack Of Disobedient Lecturers.

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That's a wellcome development

Well, a good thing.
He has set an example for the rest of state universities to follow.

But such directive cannot stand. *BSU is NOT his private propty
*He doesn't pay the Lecturers from his purse
*it is not BSU strike but nationwide
rather such effort should be geared towards solving the issue at the National level

shut up

its people like you that are holding us back as a nation

psucc: But such directive cannot stand. *BSU is NOT his private propty
*He doesn't pay the Lecturers from his purse
*it is not BSU strike but nationwide
rather such effort should be geared towards solving the issue at the National level

just shut up.

Its folks like you that are hold us back

Whatever•

Suswam should shutup abeg... He now wants to pull BSU frm ASUU after he failed to end the strike when he headed FG committee...

psucc: But such directive cannot stand. *BSU is NOT his private propty
*He doesn't pay the Lecturers from his purse
*it is not BSU strike but nationwide
rather such effort should be geared towards solving the issue at the National level

Sharaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap my fren

psucc: But such directive cannot stand. *BSU is NOT his private propty
*He doesn't pay the Lecturers from his purse
*it is not BSU strike but nationwide
rather such effort should be geared towards solving the issue at the National level

The battle lines are drawn... I trust ASUU not to backdown, they are strong-headed Lecturers.
God will help us.

Why should State Unis join in the strike when their business is solely with their respective State Govt.
They should rather stage their own protest stating their demands to their various Govt Secs

oxford: shut up

its people like you that are holding us back as a nation

What nation?

If susman doesn't have the power to sack and withhold salaries and arrears, then he wouldn't have said all this in public

Hin Dey Mad

Gabbysky: Why should State Unis join in the strike when their business is solely with their respective State Govt.
They should rather stage their own protest stating their demands to their various Govt Secs

Out of the 100billion for infrastructure, BSU got 950million. Ask Suswan the last Project he did in that university? Then imagine the face of that school in the next 5years if they receive that same amount yearly on equipment and infrastructure. They have decided to run down our university system but God will salvage it from them through dedicated steps like this. So our degrees and schools can be well recognized all over the world and we can attract other Africans to study in Nigeria. Just imagine Nigerians in Benin Republic, Namibia, Ghana etc. The conclusion is that the giant is about to die or is dead, but someone must resurrect or resuscitate it.

If ASUU call of the strike today. You will be very greedy to have wished to just graduate and allow your younger ones or children to suffer deprivation.

[quote authorHearme]

Out of the 100billion for infrastructure, BSU got 950million. Ask Suswan the last Project he did in that university? Then imagine the face of that school in the next 5years if they receive that same amount yearly on equipment and infrastructure. They have decided to run down our university system but God will salvage it from them through dedicated steps like this. So our degrees and schools can be well recognized all over the world and we can attract other Africans to study in Nigeria. Just imagine Nigerians in Benin Republic, Namibia, Ghana etc. The conclusion is that the giant is about to die or is dead, but someone must resurrect or resuscitate it.

If ASUU call of the strike today. You will be very greedy to have wished to just graduate and allow your younger ones or children to suffer deprivation. [/quote]
shut up, u r talking nonsense. Ask those nigerians in these countries u mentioned why they choose to sch ther and i bet u ther response wil be 'because of too much strike action by ASUU'

lymelyte: If susman doesn't have the power to sack and withhold salaries and arrears, then he wouldn't have said all this in public

Of cause, a state Governor can do that... But what will be the fate of students in the Federal Universities? If all State Universities were forced by their respective state Governors to Resume.

you can have your say, Bsu lecturers won't dare him. ask those that know the history of the governor as a visitor of the school mentioned.