Kogi gov proscribes ASUU

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has proscribed of the state chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) “with immediate effect”.
The governor announced the proscription on Wednesday after an emergency State Executive Council meeting.
The Acting Chairman of ASUU, Kogi State University chapter, Dr. Daniel Aina, had earlier sent notice of postponement of a press conference slated for the union’s secretariat in Ayingba to Thursday.
Bello said the decision to proscribe the union became necessary following the university teachers’ resolve to continue their six months strike.
He said: “Throughout last week, I undertook a tour of the tertiary institutions in Kogi State, with a view to having first-hand information about the problems in the schools. But while others have since resumed, lecturers in Kogi State University have refused to call off their strike.
“As a government, we have fulfilled over 90 per cent of their demand and have even gone a step further to pay all outstanding salaries of both cleared and uncleared staff including those that had committed one crime or the other.”