The anticipated strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Akwa Ibom State University chapter, was called off last Wednesday following a meeting between union officials and Governor Umo Eno.
The governor had opted to address key welfare issues such as unpaid 13th-month salary, three months of palliative care, and the creation of an internal road network on the university campus.
Governor Eno met with a cross-section of labour leaders from Akwa Ibom State University at Government House in Uyo.
Led by Comrade Sunny James, the chairperson of the Nigerian Labour Congres, Akwa Ibom State chapter, Dr. Inyang Udosen, the chairperson of ASUU, AKSU chapter, and others, Governor Eno, agreed to address several contentious issues such as the payments of 13th-month salary bonus, the three months palliative, the construction of some strategic roads within the main campus at Ikot Akpaden, among other issues.
The Governor charged the labour leaders to work closely with the government in delivering democratic dividends to the people of Akwa Ibom State.
He described the University as the pride of the state and tasked the University’s management to utilize the internally generated revenue to execute some tasks, maintaining that, the government will always pay the monthly subvention as and when due.
The visibly elated ASUU leaders praised the Governor for his labour-friendly tendencies and assured him that the planned strike would be called off.
