ASUU Owerri Zone Joins Counterparts To Mark Victimized Lecturers’ Day, Makes Case for Suffering Members
By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Owerri Zone, has joined their counterparts accross country to mark Victimized Lecturers Day.
In a statement signed by the Zonal Coordinator, ASUU Owerri Zone, Professor Dennis Aribodor and made available to Newsmen in Awka, last Tuesday, raised the alarm over lingering suffering of its members in various institutions across the country, calling for a stop to such ugly actions.
He ientified victimization suffered by their members to include dismissal from service, suspension from duty and statutory meetings, denial of promotion, deliberate seizure of salaries, nonpayment of promotion arrears, non remittance of third party deductions to stifling of union activities.
He regretted that the members were being persecuted for their commitment to discharge their intellectual responsibility by seeking the truth, finding the truth, teaching the truth and defending the truth.
He stressed that the ideals of a university should always be upheld to ensure universities played the expected roles in development of society.
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