By Daniel Amarachi

On the 10-13 November 2023 the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union (ASUU) lifted vacated the suspension on the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT branch following a resolution passed during the NEC meeting at Kaduna State University, Kaduna.

 This was made possible by the Chairperson of ASUU ESUT Prof. Chinedu Aguba who gave a written and oral presentation and submitted copies of apology letters, application for recall and evidence of regular payment of checkoff dues to National body as they are released by the administration.

He stated that ASUU National Officials came to ESUT without a prior notice to anyone and saw that the school was still active after the NEC meeting that was hosted in ESUT March 2020 and it was declared in that meeting that there is going to be National strike. ASUU ESUT violated and sabotaged the instruction, following their report to NEC, ASUU ESUT was suspended except the Chairperson. He also recalled the suspension of February 2014 under the leadership of Prof. Chris Nnadi for sabotaging the 2013 National Strike; the leadership was handed over to him November 2016 from being the vice Chairperson to the Acting Chairperson. Alongside his members they worked hard to bring to the end of the suspension and they succeeded on January 2017 at Bayero University in Kaduna NEC Meeting.

He also started that his heart bleeds whenever he remembers the ordeal few of them experienced just because they were enforcing the 2020 National Strike in ESUT. “I find it difficult to sleep each time I remember that some of my EXCO members stabbed me in my back by not only abandoning me as their leader during the struggle but also hobnobbing and licking the ass and feet of the former Acting Vice Chancellor of ESUT”.

He employed everyone to join hands to rebuild a formidable ASUU ESUT. He added that he has forgiven everyone that offended him and also seek the forgiveness of those he might have offended in the course of discharging his statutory duties in the past.

He expressed gratitude to the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Aloysius-Micheal Okolie for his in-depth knowledge of the union who served as a veritable catalyst for the sustenance of ASUU ESUT and also restoring the remittance of the monthly checkff dues to the union. 

ASUU ESUT is now fully back to being a member of the National Executive Council (NEC) and it is hoped that the new year would be an opportunity for the members to deepen their bond and solidify their brotherhood in the struggle for a better Nigerian university system