University of Calabar Lecturers Embark on Indefinite Strike

University of Calabar lecturers have embarked on an indefinite strike to protest insecurity.

This decision was not borne out of the persistent fuel scarcity or lack of power in the country but the recent perceived insecurity of lives and properties following the kidnapping of lecturers and students at the residential quarters on Tuesday morning.

The industrial strike action is aimed at forcing the appropriate authorities to deploy armed security personnel to the campus as security is believed to be porous on campus

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr Tony Eyang, In an interview with Vanguard, said that the lecturers have decided to skip their classes until the government takes decisive steps to secure the school environment.

“The action of the lecturers is in solidarity with their colleagues whose beloved ones were kidnapped in their homes at the University of Calabar staff quarters and they are saying this has never happened before so government’s attention has to be drawn to the poor security situation here in order for them to provide enough armed security personnel to stop such incidents from happening”.

Going further, he said “We have taken the decision to stay away from work until we get further directives from the national body and until there is a contrary directive, the situation would remain as it is now”.

Dr Eyang urged the Cross River State government, federal government and University of Calabar authorities to join forces to provide adequate security on the campus before the lecturers return to work.