BSU[Benue State University ] Set To Call Off 4-Month Old Strike Next Week.

 


The 4-month old strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU will end next week,The Vice Chancellor Of Benue State University Makurdi, Prof Charity Angya  disclosed this while addressing protesting medical students in the school today.Prof Angya informed the students that the strike will be called off next week after an agreement between the state government and the union is reached.

  While addressing the medical students who were protesting the death of their colleague, Idoko Nicholas Ejugwu who  died in a car crash under controversial circumstances following the news of his withdrawal from medical school after spending 10 years,She  informed them that  the Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom was doing everything possible to ensure that the strike was called off.

The vice chancellor expressed regret over the loss of the medical student and said the university was going to give him a befitting burial and also compensate the family.

She also promised to set up a panel to look into other grievances of the medical students and assured them that there will henceforth be no withdrawal of clinical students in the institution.

Earlier, the President of the Benue State University Medical Students Association, BESUMSA, Comrade Agbulu Moses said the students were deeply sad about the loss of their colleague who died an avoidable death. He decried the way exams were handled, where resit exams which ordinary was to be completed within six weeks, was extended to upwards of one year for no just reason.
Comrade Agbulu also lamented the incessant withdrawal of students and manipulation of results, all of which the vice chancellor promised to bring an end to.


Source Benue.com