EBSU embarks on an indefinite strike

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Today, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ebonyi State University Chapter, has commenced an indefinite strike to sustain their demand for the State Government to make available the 2014 Professorial promotion and 2015 promotion.

 Chairman of the union, Prof Ndubuisi Idenyi, 

told newsmen that apart from the release of the promotion, the union is also protesting the cutting down of their monthly salaries by the State government.

It was gathered that the Union is calling for the immediate removal of the university Vice Chancellor, Prof Francis Idike who they said had exhausted his stipulated tenure in office.

“But unfortunately all the demands we presented to the management, none was meet and we had no other option than to commence the strike action.

“We have eight point demand, one is the demand for gazzeting of the academic staff of the institution for the last 15 years, another is the Professorial promotion for 2014 and other caders for 2015 which government said the management are withholding, so we want it released immediately.

“Another is the defective EBSU law, there is no where in the world that the law we are using in the university is being operated where a Vice Chancellor will serve for 2 terms of 8 years each.

“What the law provided is a single term of 5 years, we want that to be enshrined in our own law and that we are demanding that it should be done immediately.

“I don’t know why they are finding it difficult to initiate this law so that things will move smoothly in the institution.”

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