ABAKALIKI- GOVERNOR Martin Elechi of
Ebonyi State yesterday called for the
disbandment of the Academic Staff Union
of Universities, ASUU in the country,
following its alleged antecedent of
sabotaging the effort of governments in the
area of education and provision of
infrastructural facilities to institution of
higher learning.
The governor made the call during an
interactive session with members and
executives of the state chapter of the
Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ.
He described ASUU’s action as a sabotage
of the education sector and the corporate
existence of country; stressing the need for
the union to always consider the future of
students while taking steps to contribute its
quota towards the improvement of the
education sector.
He said: “The major victims of this strike are
not government but the students and
things are not what they should be.
“ASUU is due for proscription; the way they
are going is sabotage to the existence of
the country. When I travelled I heard that
lecturers had resumed in EBSU; my plan
was that if any lecturer is to resume he or
she is to renounce their membership of the
union.
“At a point in time, history must change if
not we will keep drifting; in EBSU, it is still a
case of no work no pay.”
On Ebonyi indigenes who were disengaged
from Abia State civil service, the governor
noted that the state had no covenant with
the affected workers that they would be
reabsorbed into Ebonyi State civil service.
He noted that what was necessary was for
the state to ensure that their retirement
benefits were duly paid to them.
It should be recalled that over 80 Ebonyi
indigenes who were disengaged from Abia
State civil service had staged a peaceful
protest at Government House, Abakaliki,
and other relevant government agencies in
the state in 2010.
The indigenes, who were mostly from
Ebonyi South and North senatorial districts
of the state were seen carrying placards
with various inscriptions, such as ‘a
sojourner has a home’, ‘we have come
home for sense of belonging’, ‘Ebonyi state,
salt of the nation, we embrace you’, East or
West, North or South, Home is better’,
Governor T.A. Orji says no to two dual
citizenship, His Excellency, Ebonyi state
Governor, kindly receive your people’
moved around the vicinity, chatting songs
to reflect their state of despondency.
Spokesman of the group, Mr. Okoro
Chibuike Uduma, pointed out that the
reason they were disengaged was because
the governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore
Orji, wanted to implement the payment of
the N18, 000 minimum wage for only
indigenes of his state.
According to him, most of them were
disengaged from Abia State Local
Government Education Authority, local
government councils, among others

When small boy wan climb tree wey old men dey point at you know there is bound to be someone fall on his backside,

I wonder why our leaders always decide to show their folly in public and not the conform of their own house. Dont they have people who wrote their speech? Why come out and make silly statements?

Did he forget that there is freedom of association? These people dont cease to amaze me

ok na

good move

A day will come in this country, that these fools would be lynched emmediately they open their mouths to talk trash in the public. Regardless of the kind of office the fool occupies, that day is around the corner. Damn! What a man?