ASUU strike becoming political —Suswam
on september 06, 2013 at 9:17 am in news
BY PETER DURU
MAKURDI—Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State
has said the lingering strike by the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, is becoming a political
action other than an agitation for the welfare of
university lecturers.
Suswam, who spoke yesterday, when he played host
to the leadership of the National Union of Benue
Students, NUBES, insisted that the leadership of
ASUU was not being realistic with its demands.
Gov Suswam
According to him, “ASUU has no business continuing
with this strike because the Federal Government has
met virtually all of their demands. There is nothing in
the list of their demands that government has not
touched.
The Federal government has released N100 billion to
upgrade infrastructures in the universities and that
money has been distributed among all the
universities in the country and most of them have
commenced their procurement process. While the
sum of N30 billion has also been released to take
care of the Earned Allowances of lecturers in federal
universities, pending the verification of the number
of those that are entitled to it.”

Source- www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/ASUU-strike-becoming-political-suswam/

What is ů̶̲̥я̲ take on this fellow Nigerian students and parents? My own take is that Governor Suswam shud expose d political part to us; he is in d govnt circle and he is in a pole position, he knows beta dan we do.

Besides, if d govt is assisting university governing councils with N30B to settle earned allowances as widely claimed, what wud N100B do and in what ways will d sum affect d development of 60 federal universities in d country in consideration of d bogus figures contracts are being bidded, awarded and fractured dis days?? Wat will b d derivative criteria for procurement of d sum by various unis!?

We av 60 federal universities, N100B. Depending on d capacity of an institution, infrastructure needs, prestige, research activity and academic resources, ow much/ ow many projects is each university likely to procur?

D likes of OAU, UI, UNILAG, UNN. ABU, UNIJOS and oda first generation universities cud get N2-3Billion each. Dis sums in turn cud produce 4-5 or 6 projects in each skul. Whereas, oda 2nd n 3rd generation federal unis cud get between 1- 1.5B, based on d same factors above, to execute 3, 4 or 5 projects.

D pertinent question is will dis amount be enough, ASUU must av asked itsef dis question n decided 3-5 projects for an average nigerian university isn't enough; hence d need to strive on.
D u tink N100B is ok and wat is getting political about d strike according to Suswam?

Being it political or not. To resume back to school is the "Koko". First to check sha.

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