Finally there is some hope for Students of the The Rivers State University of Science and Technology(RSUST) for the Call of the 4-month long strike.
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The Rivers State University of Science and TechnologyASUU chapter said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt that it was ready to dialogue with government to end its four-month-long strike.
The union embarked on strike on Aug. 13 to challenge the re-appointment of Prof. Barineme Fakae as the institution’s vice-chancellor.
It claimed that Rivers’ Governor Chibuike Amaechi did not follow due process in the re-appointment.
The chapter chairman, Dr Felix Igwe, blamed the state government for the ongoing strike by lecturers in the university because of its refusal to dialogue with the union.
He alleged that the union’s meeting of 15 August held to seek possible solution to the impasse was disrupted by thugs sponsored by the university administration.
“The vice-chancellor, the university administration and the government are not interested in any kind of discussion at all. The union is available, willing, and always there to engage in discussion and because they (university administration) know that what they have done is wrong, that’s why they don’t want to open an avenue for discussion because when you discuss, superior opinion will prevail.’’
On the university’s claims that 70 per cent of striking lecturers had resumed academic activities, Igwe described the claims as false and untrue.
He said that lecturers would resume academic activities only when government followed the provisions of the law of the university in appointing a vice-chancellor.
The unionist said that the university administration had currently embarked on propaganda to misinform the public to believe that academic activities were on-going in the university.
“It is understandable because more than 80 per cent of membership of (the university) Senate is composed of Heads of Department that are appointed by the vice-chancellor and we didn’t expect anything less.
“The Kangaroo exams that were conducted; where lecturers did not participate and they went ahead to hire people from outside, paid them heavily in order to create a wrong impression to the public to say everything is going on; it is unfortunate.
“This strike is a strike of integrity; this is a strike that has to do with the future of the university and the fact that rules need to be obeyed.”
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