Ebonyi state govt proscribes ASUU, NASU, others in universities
By Emmanuel Awosika
The Ebonyi State Government has proscribed unions at the Ebonyi State University including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) on Thursday.
According to the state governor, David Umahi, the decision was taken in order to “ensure that academic and non-academic unions’ activities do not negatively affect the resumption of EBSU and commencement of academic/ non-academic activities in the state-owned university.”
Presently, the only union allowed to operate at the state-owned university is the Student Union Government (SUG).
Meanwhile, payment of outstanding salaries owed EBSU staff will commence after the state government released N500m for that.
This is according to state commissioner of Education, Dr. Oyebuchi Chima. He also disclosed that EBSU had received a N300m loan with a view to funding SMEs and boosting its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
He said: “All teaching and non-teaching staff members are encouraged to resume normal university activities immediately. All teaching and non-teaching staff shall be paid 80 per cent of their monthly outstanding salaries except those who refused to immediately commence work. Accordingly, EBSU management and SUG are encouraged to keep records of staff that resume for work.
“In order to ameliorate the hardship of parents/students in the payment of school fees, the Visitor of EBSU/Governor of Ebonyi State University, Dr David Nweze Umahi has approved that EBSU University Management should implement ‘staggered school payment’ system.”
