Four ESUT Professors Querried By ASUU For Sabotage Of Strike

The National Body of Academic Staff Union of Universities has queried four professors of Enugu State University of Science and Technology for allegedly undermining its ongoing nationwide strike.

Chairman of ESUT-ASUU, Prof. Gab Agu, revealed this on Monday, after a congress of the local union in Enugu.

He said with almost half the population of its members in attendance, they made it clear that they were standing on the resolutions of the ASUU National Executive on the strike.

Answering questions on the purported resumption of academic activities in ESUT on Monday, the don said they were informed that some lecturers met with the management and sold the idea that they were representing ASUU and that the strike had been called off.

He said, “We are in a meeting with the management and we have refuted the claim because we do not know them. We did not give them the mandate and everybody is concerned about such a development and we have taken the necessary steps by issuing them a query.

“Four professors are involved and we have issued them with queries and when they reply, we would know the next action to take.

“We are forwarding the query to ASUU’s national body, so that next time, people should not arrogate to themselves what is not their duty. Nobody sent them. They don’t have the mandate of ASUU.”

Agu said the action of the professors was very painful, considering the death of Prof. Festus Iyayi.

He said, “He (Professor Festus Iyayi) was a very devoted activist. You need to come close to him to appreciate him. I was with him when we had residency at Oxford roundtable last year and he was somebody that was full of humanity and again a very devoted family man.”

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