The Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko branch, has
threatened a showdown with the management of the institution, should it
make good its plans to recall students and lecturers to campus.
The union advised parents to keep their
children at home, warning that members were ready to resist the
management’s plans to reopen the university despite the ongoing strike.
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The Vice-Chancellor of the institution,
Prof. Olufemi Mimiko, had on Wednesday said he would reopen the
institution if ASUU failed to call off its over two months strike as
quickly as possible.
Mimiko had said the protracted
strike had affected the activities of the university, which, he
said, had enjoyed a stable academic calendar in the last four years.
He said, “We have unbroken four-year
academic calendar before the strike started. The strike has affected
our programmes. It is not in the interest of our students. We hope
ASUU will call off the strike soon, if not, we are considering
taking a measure to bring our students back to the campus.
“Ours is a state university and the
case is different. We don’t have any subsisting agreement with the
ASUU. It is the Federal Government that has issues with the ASUU.”
But the Chairman of ASUU, AAUA, Dr.
Busayo Mekusi, described the VC’s plan as “an attempt to plunge the
institution into an unending crisis.”
He told journalists in Akure on Thursday
that the strike called by the national union would continue and AAUA
branch was committed to what he called “the revamping of public
universities in the country.”
He said, “We advise parents to
restrain their wards from heeding the call as ASUU AAUA is still on
strike, anybody trying to break the ongoing strike meant to better the
lots of our students of tomorrow is an enemy of our future. All the
members of the union should disregard this.”
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