The union also called on governments at all levels, especially the Federal Government, to fulfill all its agreements with the union to enable public universities to breathe.
While addressing newsmen at the Nigerian Union of Journalists Press Centre in Sokoto, the zonal chairman of the union, Abubakar Yabo, said the memorandum of action signed between the union and the Federal Government led to the suspension of their 2022 strike, which was part of 2009 Nimi Briggs agreement, has not been addressed.
ASUU said rather than addressing what was mutually agreed upon, the government, through some visitors of some state universities in conjunction with some vice-chancellors of some federal universities and their Governing Councils, have resulted in victimisation and outright emotional assault of its members.
The union noted that while government and respective university administrators are supposed to uphold the truth and protect the sanctity of public university system, they now serve as agents of destruction of the same system they are meant to protect and promote.
The union further disclosed that the current economic hardships occasioned by the unpopular policies of governments at all levels have made teaching and learning environment so incondusive and unbearable and as such, the government has a duty to protect and respect academic freedom.
The statement said the union is amazed at the attitude of some overzealous university Vice Chancellors in the zone who have become intoxicated with power and, thus, resort to the unwholesome antics of tyranny and victimisation of innocent members of the union.
It, however, called on the federal government to stop its anti-intellectual posture and treat public universities with dignity and respect by fulfilling what it agreed with the union.