Strike: RSUST Lecturers Go Spiritual

The striking lecturers of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Nkpolu, Port Harcourt, have declared one week of fasting and prayers beginning from today in order to seek the intervention of God in the impasse. Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the university, Dr Felix Igwe made this known in a statement in Port Harcourt yesterday. The Tide gathered that members of the union were seeking the face of God to the problem at a period the leadership of the Rivers State Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the state Advisory Council had intervened to end the four-month industrial dispute rocking the institution. Dr Igwe, said that given what the state-owned premier university of Science and Technology was passing through, God’s intervention was imperative since He has solution to all problems confronting mankind and institutions on earth. According to him, the union decided to seek spiritual approach to the strike because the state government, had allegedly refused to accept or implement the 2009 Federal Government and ASUU agreement. “ASUU in Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt has declared one week of fasting and prayers beginning from (Monday) January 24, to Sunday 30th to seek God’s intervention in the impasse between government and the union as Rivers State Government is currently the only state government in the country that has refused to implement the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement,” he declared. He, however, prayed that God would continue to lead the nation’s leaders aright so that they would be sensitive to the yearnings and aspirations of the citizens. It would be recalled that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in RSUST began industrial dispute over an alleged non-implementation of the Federal Government and ASUU agreement for federal and state universities in the country. Isaac Nwankwo