Orji pleads against Abia varsity workers' strike

GOVERNOR Theodore Orji has pleaded with workers of the Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu not to carry out their threat to embark on strike over the delay in payment of their three months salary arrears.

The four workers' unions in the university had given the state government till today to pay the arrears or face industrial action. The unions and Orji on Tuesday dialogued on the impeding strike.

Representatives of the unions, namely the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU), National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) and the Senior Staff Association (SSA), under the aegis of the Joint Consultative Staff Union of ABSU led by the ASUU/ABSU Chairman, Dr. George Chima, in company of the Pro-Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, Profs. Joshua Ogbonnaya and Mkpa Agu Mkpa and the Registrar, Ernest Onuoha, Bursar, Mr. Dibia, met with the governor on Tuesday at the Government House, Umuahia, during which they told Orji their intention to proceed on strike from the new year.