Protest In UNN Over Pro-Chancellor’s Suspension

[Shola Sholaz]

Activities at both the Nsukka and Enugu campuses of the University of Nigeria, UNN, were paralysed yesterday as over 1000 members of the university community abandoned their offices and converged on Nsukka campus to protest the suspension of the institution's Pro-Chancellor, Dr. Emeka Enejere by the Federal Government.
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They said that they would not open their offices for academic activities until the government brought the council chairman.
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The aggrieved workers comprising members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff of Universities, NASU and National Association of Academic Technologists NAAT, among others, demanded for the immediate reinstatement of Enejere.
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The joint trade union of the university noted with dismay that the Supervising Minister for Education, Mr Nyeson Wike and the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission Prof. Julius Okojie were bundles of intrigue, maladministration and abuse of office at the detriment of Nigeria universities.
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The workers further explained that the two officers had been meddling into affairs of universities through "unconstitutional, uncivilized and outlandish strategies to frustrate universities," and then demanded the immediate removal of the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Barth Okolo, whom they accused of masterminding the suspension of Dr. Enejere, who had prevented some fraudulent activities by the present administration on campus.
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Enejere was suspended on Tuesday by the Supervising Minster of Education, Nyeson Wike for yet to be disclosed reasons.
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The workers, who carried placards with different inscriptions including "Pro-Chancellor must come back", "Enejere must come back", "Batho must go" during the protest which lasted for hours, chanted anti- Bartho Okolo slogans, demanding that he must be urgently removed to prevent the collapse of the institution.
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It was observed that the workers shut their offices and joined the protest in solidarity with the suspended Pro-Chancellor who had been championing their course since the inauguration of the council through his anti-corruption crusade.

[Folami David]

So let's just say the strike is still ON for them despite the calling off? God has to just help Nigeria!