How Gombe FUK ASUU survives in the last six month without pay – Chairman
Federal University of Kashere (FUK), Gombe, branch of Academic Staff Union of Universities says no fewer than one professor died during the ongoing strike.
Speaking in an interview with Periscope Nigeria, the Chairman, Dr. Shehu El-rasheed, said the member died during the struggle.
“We lost one Professor from the faculty of education,” El-rasheed said.
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He revealed that members were having tough time, adding that so far the Cooperative Society of the union has provided over five zero interest loans to ameliorate sufferings of members.
El-rasheed said, “We are just managing life, we have a very good cooperative society, where they try to source for relief palliatives soft loans to members and it has been disbursed about five times including Sallah period, where members got rams at zero interest rate.”
According to him, shop owners would soon be contacted to support the union with commodities or cash pending the commencement of school activities.
He added, “We are trying to contact our friends with businesses so that we can do another one, shop owners in town. We used to have arrangement with them to give us sort of loan, either commodities or cash to members by the time we resume we pay back.
“Let me tell you, the reality of things is that people are suffering, imagine staying for six months without pay. Another challenge we are facing now is that schools are resuming by September and this is first term. It is not easy, we are doing this for the system, in as much as the system will survive for us to have good education system, then we can have our Ivory tower like in the past.”
