Barring any last-minute hitches, the Educational Workers Union of Universities (ASUU) is predicted to carry a rally at present, Tuesday, in protest of what they time period the illegal dismissal of 5 lecturers at Lagos State College (LASU), Ojo.
In a press release launched by ASUU Owerri Zone, the physique mentioned that there isn’t a going again on the protest march after the administration of LASU did not reinstate the lecturers.
The union additionally listed different establishments which are at the moment victimising its members, specifically: Kogi State College (KSU), Ebonyi State College (EBSU), Ambrose Alli College Ekpoma (AAUE), Edo State; Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu College (COOU), Anambra State; and the Federal College of Know-how Owerri (FUTO), Imo State.
“Fellow Nigerians and compatriots, we’re disheartened by the deliberate reluctance of the respective college administration governing councils and guests of the acknowledged universities to halt the spiralling victimisation of educational workers for standing for reality.
“The victimisation suffered by our members ranges from dismissal from service, suspension from obligation and statutory conferences, denial of promotion, deliberate seizure of salaries, non-payment of promotion arrears, and non-responsibility by looking for the reality, discovering the reality, instructing the reality, and defending the reality.
“ASUU is especially disturbed on the seeming travesty of justice within the judgement delivered towards our members at Kogi State College, Anyigba, after seven years of ready,” the assertion learn.
In 2019, the college’s administration dismissed a number of ASUU members, together with Isaac Oyewumi, the union’s chairman; Adebowale Adeyemi-Suenu, vice chairman; Dr. Tony Dansu, secretary; Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan, assistant secretary; and Oluwakemi Aboderin-Shonibare, treasurer.
The college asserted that accusations of unauthorised removing, retention, distribution, or publication of official confidential paperwork led to the dismissal of the lecturers.
