President Muhammadu Buhari has indicted the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of corrupt practices.


The union has been on strike since February 14 over demands bordering on allowances and salaries of lecturers.


The president has pleaded severally with the union to call off the strike but the lecturers have stood their ground.

While declaring open the Fourth National Summit on Diminishing Corruption organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Office of Secretary to Government of the Federation (OSGF) and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Buhari said ASUU is no less complicit in the corruption in tertiary education.

He said corruption in the education sector continues to undermine investments, while critics downplay funding by focusing only on budgetary allocations, urging a more comprehensive re-evaluation of expenditure.


The president said: “This year’s summit will mirror how corruption undermines educational policies, investments and create an unfriendly learning environment for our youths.

“Incessant strikes especially by unions in the tertiary education often imply that government is grossly underfunding education, but I must say that corruption in the education system from basic level to the tertiary level has been undermining our investment in the sector and those who go on prolonged strikes on flimsy reasons are no less complicit.

“The 1999 Constitution places a premium on education by placing it on the Concurrent List, thereby laying the responsibilities of budgeting and underwriting qualitative education on both the Federal and State Governments.

“The total education budget for each year is therefore a reflection of both federal and state budgets and should be viewed as other financial commitments in their totality.

“The allocation to education in the federal budget should not be considered via allocation to the Federal Ministry of Education and also academic institutions alone, but should include allocation to the Universal Basic Education, transfers to TETFUND and refund from the Education Tax Pool Account to TETFUND.


“Corruption in the expenditure of internally generated revenue of tertiary institutions is a matter that has strangely not received the attention of stakeholders in tertiary education, including unions.

“I call on stakeholders to demand accountability in the administration of academic institutions and for unions to interrogate the bloated personnel and recurrent expenditure of their institutions. Let me also implore the Unions to work with the government to put faces and identities to names on the payroll.

“Due to declining resources, the government cannot bear the cost of funding education alone. I task our academics to attract endowments, research and other grants to universities, polytechnics and colleges of education similar to what obtains in other countries.”

https://dailytrust.com/buhari-accuses-ASUU-of-corruption

Mirabella00:
Taaaa
Scam

Ebubu:


https://punchng.com/buhari-faults-ASUU-alleges-corruption-in-educational-sector/?amp

Ebubu:
father of the nation has spoken

i don’t want to be ASUU ryt now

they deserve it for wasting students lives for 8months this year, and wasting their lives for 9months in 2021 strike

IamDietiesGod:
Quite appalling. We all know the system is infected but is this how you guys will be throwing tantrum till this year runs out?.

Going by the tone and choice of words deployed by Mr Buhari in this report, I don't think he is ready to yeild in to ASSU demands.

GeneralBuhari:


We warned ASUU but they refused to listen.

They pride themselves as the most stubborn and most unshakeable labour Union in the world.

Now, see where their collective stubbornness has led them to.

GeneralBuhari:


We warned ASUU but they refused to listen.

They pride themselves as the most stubborn and most unshakeable labour Union in the world.

Now, see where their collective stubbornness has led them to.

mespusinglez:
NAWA O

Dvdpity:


You are not ashmed that nigerians are suffering. Dollar is 720 Naira. Salary of Nigerian workers are the same since 2009. Is this how education supposed to be in a developing country? The bed rock of every developed nation is sound academics.

This APC regime is the height of corruption nepotism killing subjugation. Nigerian economy is in comatose State. Buhari and his APC gangs are epitome of corruption.

You are just an idiota.. properly put you are a terrorists/terror to the development of Nigeria and Nigerians.