Students of University of Portharcourt (UNIPORT) under the aegis of Students Union Government (SUG), Wednesday carried placards of different description against their Lecturers.
The students stormed the secretariat of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), UNIPORT Branch and disrupted their meeting.
The lecturers were preparing to brief newsmen on the sacking of their colleague, Prof. Frank Ugiomoh and other matters affecting the university when the students invaded the auditorium of the secretariat.
The students, who disrupted a meeting by ASUU in the university campus, held placards with the inscriptions: ASUU let our academic calendar stand; Say no to strike; Stop exploiting students, among others.
Sowari Daniel, President, Students’ Union Government (SUG) in UNIPORT, who led the protest at the campus in Port Harcourt, called for Federal Government intervention.
“The SUG rejects ASUU’s unpatriotic approach of inciting academics against government’s well intended policies and UNIPORT management’s innovations to stabilise and revitalise the university’s system.
“ASUU’s threat of strike action is unpatriotic move in the face of current realities in UNIPORT, where all stakeholders are making efforts to revive the system.
“We learnt of ASUU’s meeting to move forward their plan to strike on Dec. 20. So, students took protest to their meeting to avert any strike by lecturers.
“There is no justification for the incessant strike actions in the University of Port Harcourt,” he said.
Daniel said the student body was dismayed with ASUU’s directive to its members to withhold students’ second semester (2018/2019 session) results.
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