PLEASE OO, BARTHO MY VC HAS KILLED ME. DIS HAD BETTER NT HAPPEN OO. THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday said it was wrong for the Federal Government to claim that opponents of the government have hijacked its industrial action. Meanwhile, there are signals that whenever the ASUU strike comes to an end, a fresh crisis may erupt at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) as the Joint Action Committee on Trade Unions of the university yesterday threatened to shut down the Institution as soon as academic activities resume. In University of Nigeria, Nsukka, the ASUU and NASU at a press conference said the plan to shut down the Institution has become necessary following alleged ongoing corruption, looting and flagrant abuse of office by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Barth Okolo. The two unions alleged that Okolo had run the Institution since he assumed office without a budget. They called on the Federal Government to constitute a judicial commission of enquiry to investigate the activities of the vice chancellor and the immediate past council of the school with a view to sanitizing the system. When contacted, Okolo said the issues raised by the unions were “instigated” and calculated at tarnishing his achievements in office, adding that they had no relationship with the goings on in the school. Okolo, who would not want to respond pointedly to the issues raised by the unions added: “The type of growth that has happened in the UNN presently has never happened anywhere since the inception of the Institution. It is being testified everywhere and I am yet to believe that it is all the members of the unions that addressed the press conference.”
Posted on: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:56:06 +0000
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