GUSAU – The striking lecturers at the Federal College of Education Technical (FCET) in Gusau, Zamfara State, have announced an unconditional suspension of their strike action.
The three-month-old strike was called off on Thursday following a long-hours meeting of union members at Gusau College, the state capital.
Mukhtar Abdullahi, a member of the academic union FCET Gusau, apologised to parents, guardians, and students for the inconvenience caused by the college’s strike, which lasted more than three months.
“Let me first of all start by apologising to students, we will overcome the long absence of academic activities, certainly the academic activities have resumed from now, what happened has happened, and the full resumption of academics is sacrosanct,” he said.
According to him, the decision to call off the strike was made unconditionally, and members of the union reached an agreement after meeting to resolve issues at the college.
A coalition of Zamfara State Civil Society and supporters of Federal College Of Education Technical Gusau (FCET) protested against the College Of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) Chapter’s alleged anti-education policies.
Alhaji Nasiru Garba, representing the coalition, expressed solidarity with Hajiya Hauwa’u Mukhtar Abdul Karim, the FCET Gusau’s only female and indigenous provost since its inception in 1988.
According to him, some members of the embattled union did not wish the college well, so they went as far as inviting their co-union members from over eight states of the federation to join them in the fight against what God had done.
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