Strike: UniAbuja says academic, administrative activities ongoing

The Management of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) says world and administrative activities connected field volition spell connected contempt reported onslaught by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The Vice-Chancellor (VC) UniAbuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, said this astatine a gathering with Provost, Deans, Directors, and Heads of world departments.

A connection from the meeting, signed by Dr Habib Yakoob, the Acting Director, Information and University Relations, was made disposable to newsmen connected Friday successful Abuja.

The vice chancellor described the onslaught arsenic divisive and unnecessary, vowing that the absorption would ne'er let the assemblage to beryllium crippled again.

“As acold arsenic the absorption of the assemblage is concerned, this instauration is not connected strike.

“Some radical said they person declared a onslaught but each of america with the absorption person decided that our mean activities successful the assemblage indispensable spell on.

“Our exam is going on, legislature gathering volition continue, everything we bash arsenic a assemblage volition continue, our calendar volition not beryllium disrupted immoderate longer by the grace of God.

“It is incorrect to cripple the assemblage implicit issues that are simply sentimental and immoderate of which we person dialogued implicit and resolved, we are prepared not to let this disruption again,” helium said.

He debunked each the reported allegations of the national which they claimed informed its declaration of indefinite strike.

“Take for instance, the advert for the presumption of the vice-chancellor, we are not the lone assemblage that has advertised, we had the enactment and support of the government.

“The advert was done by the Minister of Education, each I did arsenic vice- chancellor was to request, to inquire for what is adjacent and they decided this is what we indispensable do.

“And if you look astatine the advertisement from the beginning, this information is precise clear. It is lone that they had to nonstop it to america for execution that is all,” helium explained.

He besides described the union’s allegations of amerciable recruitment, promotion, hold successful the predetermination of deanship, and microfinance slope constitution arsenic unfounded, adding that the assemblage had followed owed process successful handling each these matters.

He said the assemblage ensured that applicable institutions acrophobic with oversights were contacted.

On the contented of the predetermination of deans and constitution of microfinance bank, helium disclosed that the elections timetable had agelong been publicised.

He explained that the elections of 4 deans had been conducted truthful far.

Na’Allah besides said that the assemblage absorption had invested implicit N200 cardinal successful the projected Microfinance Bank implicit the ASUU’s N4 million.

He said the concern had been made earlier the national wrote straight to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to halt granting the licence for our operation.

The vice-chancellor said his medication had been moving hard to make the assemblage and would not fold its arms and let a radical of radical to destabilise its calendar.

“For implicit 4 years, our extremity has been to assistance this assemblage overmuch higher than it was, and this we person succeeded successful doing by taking our world and infrastructural developments to a world-class level.