The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), UNIPORT chapter on Monday protested over unpaid salaries by the federal government.
There was a paralyzed academic activity in the school on Monday as they describe as maltreatment, the refusal of the federal government to pay up lecturers.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu had said the government will not pay lecturers for the period they were on strike.
The last ASUU strike held from February 14 till October 14. When lecturers got their first salaries in eight months, it was just two weeks they were paid for.
Last week, ASUU had called on members of their various chapters accross the country to embark on a one-day protest within their campuses.
On Monday,the lecturers, led by the UNIPORT ASUU chairman, Dr. Darlington Uzoma, marched from the union secretariat in Delta through the main gate of the university to the Senate building.
Uzoma said, “About 20 of our members in UNIPORT are being owed 22 months’ salaries because of the carelessness of the Federal Government through the payment system it adopted.”
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