Hear this: Preye Aganaba In a reaction to the minister’s threats, ASUU president Nasir Fagge told Daily Trust yesterday that the union was awaiting a reply to a letter sent to President Jonathan. He said the union had written to the president on the outcome of their national executive meeting which held in Kano to consider the government’s offer over the strike. “I don’t normally take instructions over the media,” Fagge said, referring to the instruction by Wike for the lecturers to resume or face the sack. “We wrote a letter to the president through the minister on our position after our NEC meeting. So we are still waiting for him to reply to our letter. I will not want to react to what the minister said in the media because there are incidences whereby he denied saying what he was quoted as saying in the media.” But Fagge was apparently downplaying the anger of the lecturers, as some chapters of ASUU and individual teachers said they would not be intimidated by the minister. Soon after the minister’s news conference, the authorities of the University of Abuja announced the reopening of its campuses. It asked students to resume on Sunday. But ASUU chairman at the University of Abuja, Dr. Clement Chup, said: “The school can go ahead and ask students to resume but we won’t do any work; we won’t teach them. It is not our responsibility to resume until ASUU decides. “We’re not afraid of that (sack). (The minister) can go to the motor park to recruit lecturers that will lecture the students. You can now see the insincerity of some people in government…. We dare them to sack us.” “The minister is ignorant…. He thinks the university is a ministry or a local government. It shows why we still have the problem. Most of them never went to the university and don’t even know what a university is,” he said
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:16:16 +0000
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