Here is the transcript of an interview with the ASUU chairman UI chapter as published by Punch

Apart from union activism what other work do you do...?

I am a lecturer of the University of Ibadan, Department of Teacher Education and an Associate professor in the university.

How will you describe the attitude of President Goodluck Jonathan to the education in Nigeria?

Everybody thought that President Goodluck Jonathan's academic qualification would be an advantage for Nigeria. this is the first time we are having a president who holds a PhD and we are hoping for the best. Being a Doctor of Philosophy puts you at the peak of academic achievement because other addition will come through promotion.

But we are not only disappointed but also let down. Even the military regimes that we all condemned supported education more than what we have under Jonathan.

What are the issues that led to this strike and confrontation with the Government?

If we go by the agreement that the Federal Government had with ASUU in 2009 and the MoU signed by the FG on January 24, 2012, you will discover that the critical issue is the funding of federal universities in Nigeria. There is a need for substantial amount of money to be injected into the universities to acheive total revitalization and the two parties agreed on this. It was agreed in 2009 that a sum of N1.5trn would be required to fund the 24 federal universities then. It was also greed that we will look at the number of students in stat universities to determine how much would be needed to intervene.

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