The Nigeria Labour Congress on Friday described the pronouncement of the Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, ordering members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities back to work or risk being sacked as hasty.
The Acting General Secretary of the NLC, Mr. Chris Uyot, said in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Friday that Wike ought to have considered the circumstances that hindered the leadership of the ASUU from getting their resolutions to the government.
Uyot said ASUU was not able to get the resolutions of the NEC meeting to the Federal Government because of the death of a former President of the union, Prof. Festus Iyayi.
He noted that the minister would have shown understanding that there was the need to follow the process of discussions with ASUU since the resolutions were the products of discussions held by the NEC.
He said, “Well, we believe strongly that the minister is hasty in his pronouncement (directing the lecturers to go back to work or be sacked) because he should have considered the circumstances that delayed ASUU from getting back to the government on the offer.
“This was engendered by the death of Festus Iyayi.
“We are aware that the National Executive Committee has met and it was in the process of relaying its resolution to the Federal Government that the directive came. The minister should have allowed the process to be followed.
“The minister should understand that the offer made was as a result of discussions and that if there was a resolution from the NEC of ASUU, he should have allowed the process.”
Punch
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