Pecohub 
The Leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Anambra State Chapter, on Tuesday, joined the Nationwide protest and demanded that the federal government resolve all the lingering industrial disputes between it and all the university-based unions in the country.
Pecohub gathered that all the affiliate members of NLC in Anambra State participated in the nationwide protest in solidarity with the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASSU).
Addressing participants, shortly after the protest at Ekwueme Square junction by Enugu-Onitsha expressway, Awka, the State Chairman of NLC, Comrade Chinwe Orizu, said the peaceful protest was in compliance with the resolution of the congress and represents the first in the series of actions Congress intents to compel the Federal Government to do the needful.
She appealed to the state governor, Chukwuma Soludo, to use his good office and good conscience to get the Federal Government to bring an end to the strike action.
She warned that NLC would be left with no option but to join ASUU in the strike action if the government did not resolve the lingering industrial dispute soon.
The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (Unizik), Chairman of ASUU, Comrade Stephen Oforoah, who also spoke on the development, noted that the essence of the protest was not for ASUU alone but for Nigerians irrespective of Tribe, Ethnic and Religion placement to get back their educational right in the country, the education sector should be well funded and workers at the Universities should be paid off their salaries and their entitlements.
“The federal government should honour the agreement it entered with ASUU in 2009, and, make sure there is no disparity in the implementation of the salaries of all workers in the federal university system, he added.
Comrade Oforoah commended the Labour Unions for the peaceful protest in the state.
The chairperson, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, chapter, Dr Uchenna Nwangwu, on his part, raised an alarm that many students of the Nigerian universities have now been forced into prostitution and other criminalities as a result of the protracted strike action of the ASUU.
Dr Nwangwu who condemned the federal government’s seeming lack of concern over the manner the university lecturer’s strike action had kept the students at home for six past six months now showed that the country is under bad leadership.
