A protest over the sacking of five lecturers at Lagos State University, Ojo, was started today by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
At 10 am, the rally got underway.
According to an ASUU Owerri Zone statement, the academics’ dismissal was unlawful.
The union also provided a list of additional educational institutions where its members are being victimized: Kogi State University (KSU), Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Imo State; Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Edo State; Ebonyi State University (EBSU); Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma (AAUE); and Anambra State.
Part of the statement says, “Fellow Nigerian and compatriots, we are disheartened by the deliberate reluctance of the respective university administration governing councils and visitors of the stated universities to halt the spiralling victimisation of academic staff for all standing for truth.
“The victimisation suffered by our members ranges from dismissal from service, suspension from duty and statutory meetings, denial of promotion, deliberate seizure of salaries, non-payment of promotion arrears, non-responsibility by seeking the truth, finding the truth, teaching the truth and defending the truth.
“ASUU is particularly disturbed at the seeming travesty of justice in the judgment delivered against our members at the Kogi State University, Anyigba, after seven years of waiting”.
