Some parents in Port Harcourt, Rivers State have expressed happiness over the suspension of the national industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universties (ASUU)..
The leadership of ASUU had last Thursday in Abuja at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) National Secretariat, announced the suspension of the over three months old industrial action embarked by members of the union, which had paralysed academic activities across the public universities in the country.
Although, so many state owned universities had mid-way into the strike pulled out from the ASUU struggle, cuting among other things of having a roburst relationship with their state governments, the reason which did not go down well with the leadership of the ASUU.
Meanwhile, some parents who spoke with The Tide education correspondent in Port Harcourt described the suspension of the strike as good and healthy, adding that it would offer the students an opportunity to continue with their studies.
Mr. Paul Samuel, a parent, thanked the leadership of the union for taking such decision to suspend the strike, adding that such gesture has brought a sigh of relief to parents and their children.
He however, urged members of the union not to resort to strike actions all the time, adding that delight and friendly dialogue should be an option to strike.
On his own part, a level 200 of Linguistics and Communication, Promise Onyiyechi, University of Port Harcourt, Choba while expressing happiness for the suspension of the strike urged lecturers to commence lectures with out further delay.
He called on the management of the affected universities to take into considerations the number of months lost by students in their various institutions and give adequate time for lectures before rushing into examinations.
According to him students should not be allowed to suffer the consequences of the strike actions through rush programmes, adding that rush programmes give birth to the production of half baked graduates in the society.