Elechi asks National Assembly to Ban ASUU

Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State on Tuesday urged the National Assembly to immediately proscribe the Academic Staff Union of Universities for “sabotaging the nation’s education sector”. The governor made the call in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, during an interactive session with journalists.
Elechi blamed the National Assembly for failing to proscribe the union in the past.
He said: “I blame the National Assembly for not proscribing ASUU. “That union is due for proscription. “The way they are going about the strike is sabotage.” Elechi said the union was deliberately sabotaging the government and the country with incessant strikes. Describing the current situation in the university sector as unfortunate, the governor stressed that the strike could also have dire consequences on the security of the country. He added: “The ASUU strike is unfortunate. “I hope that common sense will prevail.
“If you say a lot is lacking in the university sector, you are correct. “But it is like that in almost all other sectors of the country. “The major victims of the strike are not government but the students. “When you go on strike, you have to be reasonable so that you do not destroy everything.” Elechi reiterated that the way ASUU had been going about the strike amounted to sabotage. On the disengagement of Ebonyi State indigenes from Abia State Civil Service, the governor said that his administration was not obliged to absorb the affected workers into the Ebonyi State Civil Service. He said: “What is necessary for the state to do is to ensure that their retirement benefits are duly paid.”
It would be recalled that over 80 indigenes of Ebonyi State were compulsorily retired from the Abia State Civil Service in 2010.

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