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Prof. Valene Obinna, Media Director, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Imo State University Chapter, has maintained that the planned strike action by the union will not be called off until all unpaid salaries are settled.
Obinna told NAN in Owerri on Monday that the union carried out the action to protest nonpayment of March and April salaries of its members as well as other issues which the union had been agitating for.
However, Prof. Obinna discarded the notion by some people that the strike is politically motivated, adding that the timing had nothing to do with the just concluded elections wrongly claimed by some politicians.
On a similar note, the University Public Relations Officer, Mr Raphael Njokuobi, said the issue of unpaid salaries was not peculiar to the state. He added that Governor Rochas Okorocha had made efforts to raise funds to pay workers’ salaries in the state.
In the same vein, a final year student of the Department of Microbiology, Mr Obinna Nwaobia regrettably noted that lectures had yet to commence before the commencement of the strike. He said further that seminars for final year students which were scheduled to begin this week had been cancelled as a result of the strike.
Moreover, another student, Marylin Izukanne of the department of Mass Communication said she had just returned from home before the strike started. She added that she would have remained at home if she had known that there would be a delay in the resumption of academic activities.
