The lecturers warned of a bleak future for Nigerian
education except something urgent was done.
The union members had earlier in the day held a two-hour
congress where they reviewed the crisis.
Following the congress, the members marched through the
university campus, carrying placards and singing solidarity songs.
A statement by the union after the protest said the FG had
not addressed any of the issues that led to the nationwide strike.
The statement, signed by the institution’s ASUU Chairman, Dr
Jibrin Shagari, and the Secretary, Dr Mzungu Ignatius, said, “We wish to state
to both the Nigerian government and the public that this slavish treatment and
humiliation of the academia only spells doom to the future of our children and
the nation, as the fate of any nation lies in the hands of her intellectuals.”
Meanwhile, the ASUU members at the Umaru Musa Yar’dua
University in Katsina protested and spoke through their Chairman, Dr Murtala
Kwarah, and the Secretary, Dr Shamsudeen Bello, condemning half salaries
payment and insisting that ASUU members were not casual workers.
They also lauded the Katsina State Government for paying
their salaries throughout the period of the strike.