On Tuesday, members of the Federal University Gashu’a branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), in Yobe State, held a nonviolent demonstration against unpaid salary.
The demonstration, according to the branch’s chairman Dr. Melemi Abatcha, was in opposition to the mistreatment of lecturers through the “weaponization of hunger and frightening court order.”
Abatcha emphasized that rather than responding to the key requests put forth by the Union, the Federal Government, through its agencies, resorted to blackmail and coercion, adding that this behavior amounted to the casualization of academics through the pro-rata payment of October salaries.
While urging the Federal Government to honour their agreement and pay all withheld salaries, the ASUU chairperson maintained that the Union rejected the humiliation of academics in Nigerian universities.
Members of the Union were seen in their numbers carrying placards with different inscriptions and went around the university campus.