The management of University of Abuja has said academic and administrative activities on campus would go on despite reported strike called by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
It would be recalled that the institution’s branch of ASUU, on Thursday began a strike in response to unresolved issues such as the university’s refusal to conduct elections for the office of the dean of faculties and provost, College of Health Sciences and advertorial for the post of vice chancellor of the university, among other issues.
However, in a press statement yesterday, Dr. Habib Yakoob, the Acting Director, Information and University Relations of the university, said the vice chancellor, after a meeting with the provost, deans, directors and heads of academic departments, described the strike as divisive and unnecessary.
He vowed that the management would never allow the university to be crippled again.
He said, “As far as the management of the university is concerned, this institution is not on strike. Some people said they had declared a strike, but all of us, with the management, have decided that our normal activities in the university must go on. Our exam is going on, senate meeting will continue, everything we do as a university will continue, our calendar will not be disrupted by the grace of God, any longer.
“It is wrong to cripple the university over issues that are merely sentimental, and some of which we have dialogued over and resolved. We are prepared not to allow this disruption again.”
Na’Allah debunked all the reported allegations of the union which it claimed informed its declaration of the indefinite strike.
