Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has lamented over the poor condition public universities lecturers are returning to classrooms after suspension of the strike that lasted for eight months.
ASUU had been on strike from February 14 until October, one of the longest industrial actions by the union, during which the federal government withheld their salary based on “No Work No Pay” policy.
In an interview with correspondents, Osodeke, said the strike was suspended in obedience with the law despite absence of any signed agreement between them and the federal government.
He further said that lecturers are not happy because they were forced to return to classrooms while they’re impoverished and owing loans.
He said and quote “You don’t railroad people that way. Our members will go and teach, but getting a man who is hungry, who is indebted, who is owing banks loans because his salary was not paid to be happy to teach is another thing,” end quote
