Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, Wednesday,
described claim by the Federal
Government that N130billion
had been released to
universities as untrue.
The union said the Federal
Government was yet to release
any kobo of the said amount
but only sent a letter to the
governing councils of
universities through the
National Universities
Commission, NUC.
This was contained in a
communiqué read by ASUU
Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Ademola
Nasir, at the end of the zone
meeting at the University of
Ibadan.
The zone comprises University
of Ibadan, Lagos State
University, Federal University
of Agriculture, Abeokuta,
University of Lagos, Olabisi
Onabanjo University and Tai
Solarin University of Education.
According to the union,
government was only
interested in awarding
contracts of a four-bedroom
for N8.5million instead of the
original cost of N800,000 and
N1.2million, saying, "rather tha
for government to source for
the intervention funds from
other agencies outside
TETFUND, it has decided to
hijack the resources of
TETFUND, which already belong
to the universities and use it as
intervention funds for this
purpose.
"In doing this, the regular
intervention of TETFUND is
blocked. This attitude of
government is fraudulent to
say the least."
The union, after passing a vote
of confidence on its national
leadership over the current
strike, regretted that "a
government that always says
our graduates are not
employable finds it difficult to
put the best of its resources
into the system to make it
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I believe it bc dis govt careless abt 9ja student n only hw 2 win 2015 election.bt own time will soon come when dey need our vote.