Strike Action: Lectures Still Ongoing, Says OAU Management - IFECITYBLOG

The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has insisted that academic activities on campus are not disrupted despite the industrial action embarked upon by the members of the institution's branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The University in a statement on Tuesday as obtained from its official Facebook page @oauniversity said "overwhelming majority" of the striking workers are not in support of the decision of the Union as they go about their normal duties and attending to students.

The University management while appreciating the members of the Academic Staff who refused to join the strike, assured parents, guardians, alumni and other members of the University community of uninterrupted academic calendar and urged students to go about their normal academic activities.

The statement reads, "The attention of the Management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, has been drawn to a circular issued by a section of the academic staff, ASUU, calling on its members to go on strike, beginning from Monday, 31st January, 2022. 

"The University Management is using this medium to inform the general public, particularly our students, their parents or guardians, that overwhelming majority of the academic staff in OAU are NOT ON STRIKE neither do they have the intention of going on any strike action. In actual fact, lectures are on going and students are being attended to by lecturers in their respective departments.

"In view of this, parents, guardians, alumni and friends of the University are assured of uninterrupted academic calendar, as our students are advised to go about their normal academic activities because there is no cause for concern or alarm.

"In addition, the University Management wishes to appreciate majority of lecturers who have the interest of the students at heart, and have been teaching and attending to students."

The ASUU OAU had on Monday directed its members on the University campus to embark on a "total and comprehensive" strike over what the union described as non-payment of earned academic allowance.

The Union in a statement by the Campus branch Chairperson, Adeola Egbedokun maintained that the union resorted to strike after all "political and diplomatic" means had failed.