After FG’s Approval, Registration, CONUA Releases First Statement

Niyi Sunmonu, the national coordinator of the Congress of University Academics (CONUA), has issued a statement following the federal government’s presentation of the union with a certificate of registration.

Anaedoonline.ng learned that shortly after receiving recognition from the federal government, CONUA issued the announcement in Osogbo, Osun State.

Recall that on Tuesday, Chris Ngige, the minister of labor and employment, gave the certificate to the CONUA leadership.

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In the statement, CONUA pledged to do everything in its power to prevent future academic union disruptions from traumatizing the country.

Sunmomu talked about how CONUA became recognized as a union and how the strength of the human will was confirmed.

The National Coordinator of the union, who claimed that they had been struggling since 2018, said, “it asserts the value of courage, initiative, focus, tenacity, patience, forbearance and persistent positive thinking.

“We are immensely grateful to the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and his team of diligent staff for insisting on merit, due process and thoroughness all through the processing of our application for the registration of DrUA. The very strict and dispassionate review of our application brought out the best in the membership of the Union.

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“We regard the registration of CONUA as a sacred trust and pledge to reciprocate by devoting ourselves unceasingly to the advancement of university education in this country. We would make the details of our programmes available to the public in due course. For now, we are giving the assurance that we would work to ensure that the nation is not traumatized again by academic union dislocations in the country’s public universities.

“We are also deeply grateful to the numerous personalities and well-wishers whose good counsel and concrete actions have facilitated the success we have witnessed today. We believe in the saying that to whom much is given, much is expected. We would therefore constantly strive to make them all proud of CONUA.

“We appreciate the entire membership of the Union for believing in the righteousness of the CONUA cause and for believing in the leadership of the Union, and thereby remaining salutarily steadfast, even when disconcerting and demoralizing situations arose.”

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