Battle To Save Education: ASUU strike paralyses S’Éast varsities

By Emmanuel Edukugho
For over three months now, universities in the five South-East States have been closed down as striking staff and lecturers are embroiled in a wage dispute with governments of the geo-political zone.

More than two hundred thousands students were thrown out from the various campuses, most of them roaming about hopelessly, staying at home idle or straying into crime and prostitution as their future seemed truncated.

While parents and some other stakeholders are worried and lamenting over the current impasse, the state governments who owned the universities are fiddling and playing games, revealing their lack of direction, foresight as can be seen by the governors who are so conceited, selfish and narrow minded that they hardly think or see beyond their immediate parochial interests.

These governors are unconcerned about the public calamities that their brazen incompetence and inability to meet the fundamental needs of the people have caused.

The affected institutions are:
* Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki
* Abia State University, (ABSU), Uturu
* Anambra State University (ANSU) Uli
* Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT)
* Evan Enwerem University (EEU) Owerri

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