The Secretary of the University of Nigeria branch of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Aaron Agbo, sacked by his colleagues after being accused of unauthorised negotiation with the university administration in the ongoing demonstrations for the recall of the pro- chancellor, Dr. Emeka Enejere.
The decision has been made on January 7, 2014, Tuesday.
Dr. Agbo, who is in the Department of Psychology, had held the post for only a year before the sudden loss of it.
A panel headed by a senior academic, Professor Damian Opata, Head of Department of English, was also set up to determine further punishment to be meted out to the former ASUU scribe.
Members of the four unions in the university operating as Joint Action Committee (JAC) on January 6, 2014, Monday, resumed the demonstrations, which have been suspended for Christmas and New Year break.
However, Dr. Agbo issued a notice instructing lecturers not to join the other four unions.
The chairman, Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, promptly countered the instruction in a different notice mobilising his colleagues.
Academic staff of all levels, therefore, joined the other three unions and marched round Nsukka campus on Monday but unknown to them, Dr. Abada had gone to a meeting reportedly called by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Bartho Okolo, at Enugu campus in an attempt to negotiate with the staff.
The other unions, apart from ASUU, were National Association of Academic Technicians, NAAT; Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, Enugu Campus; and Non- Academic Staff Union, NASU, Nsukka Campus.
Sources said workers at the Enugu Campus, however, resisted the attempt to negotiate with JAC in that meeting.
It would be noted that before the demonstration on January 7, 2014, Tuesday, ASUU convened emergency congress at Nsukka campus and tabled the issue of Dr. Agbo’s attempt to represent the union in the meeting with the VC without the branch chairman, Dr. Abada.
