LASU students disrupts ASUU NEC briefing Union calls for visitation panel to LASU

Some sponsored students of the Lagos State University
(LASU) on Monday disrupted the media briefing of the
National President of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) over alleged plan by the union to
embark on strike.
The students with different placards denounced the ASUU
NEC meeting, chanting anti ASUU songs asking the union
leadership to leave the university and allow them
(students) write their forthcoming exams scheduled for
December 15.
The protesting students confronted ASUU leadership
telling them to stop meddling into LASU affairs and that
LASU was not the only university in the country even as
they rejected appeal from the union to allow peace reign.
It took the intervention of ASUU National Treasurer, Dr.
Ademola Aremu, who battled for over 14 minutes to
persuade the students to drop the agitation telling the
students that the union remain an ally which supported
them during school fees crisis.
His words: ''We are here in LASU to address national.
Anybody that told you that ASUU is preparing for strike is
a disgruntled person. We are not in LASU to declare strike
or disrupt your forthcoming exam. Don't allow yourselves
to be used by those that have been suspended from the
union''.
It also took the intervention of LASU Students Union
President, Comrade Nurudeen Yusuf to calm the
situation stressing ''there is no where in any Nigerian
university that students have disrupted ASUU NEC and it
will not happen here in LASU''.
He warned that protesting students that the nation is
watching their action because of the media presence at
the event adding ''don't be misinformed by disgruntled
element. ASUU is a comrade and our supporters. Don't
be incited by the bad element, ASUU is not embarking on
any strike because it takes a long process to declare a
strike''.
Addressing newsmen after the NEC meeting ASUU
National President, Dr. Nasir Isa, said ASUU LASU
members have been at loggerheads with the university
administration for close two year and blamed it on
administrative impunity, reckless disregard for
established norms and witch-hunting by the Vice
Chancellor, Prof John Obafunwa.
Nasir used the opportunity to call on the visitor to LASU,
Governor Babatunde Fashola to constitute a visitation
panel to the university to expose and check crisis,
warning ''the university governing council and Governor
Fashola must call the VC to order to save LASU''.
''Our union has resolved to throw our weight behind our
branch at LASU in their call for a visitation to LASU to
unravel and correct the causes of the sporadic crises in
the university. The union is aware that the VC is colluding
with some suspending members of ASUU LASU to stop
ASUU check-off dues and throw the university into further
crises.
The ASUU condemned in strong term the withdrawal of
the PhD certificates of ASUU LASU chairman and other
lecturers noting that what the university administration
would have done was to produce the correct PhD and
give it back to the owners without making noise.