ASUU Says – “We’ll Not Allow Government To Destroy Public Universities”

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Friday, said it would not allow federal and state governments destroy public universities in the country.

The union included that oppressed guardians, understudies and different partners ought to consider the Federal Government in charge of the progressing one-week cautioning strike.

While tending to a public interview in the Niger Delta University, NDU, Bayelsa, ASUU demanded that the mechanical activity was for the best enthusiasm of improvement of tertiary training in the nation.

The NDU section Chairman of ASUU, Dr. Stanley Ogoun, uncovered that the union was out to remain against any move by government officials, who had begun the matter of running private colleges, to execute open organizations.

As indicated by him, "We approach understudies, guardians and the standard individuals of Nigeria to comprehend that our activities are adapted towards opposing and disappointing the endeavor by the decision class to market and privatize college training in Nigeria.

"We will oppose each endeavor to kill the college framework the way they killed essential and auxiliary schools. In the event that we neglect to remain in favor of truth, descendants won't pardon us.

"Before now, we were getting subventions to run the colleges, yet now they are pulling back the subventions. Most state colleges are nearly grounded why political performing artists are coasting private colleges", he said.

"The present condition of the economy is artificial and the legislature of the day should experience its duties by starting strategy alternatives that would move us out of our current monetary state, aside from the administration is dispossessed of thoughts."

He bemoaned the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, it marked with the administration amid the 2009 and 2013 modern activity had not been executed.

He included, "For the evasion of uncertainty, this present activity is constrained by disappointment of arrangements and a few pleas from our union since 2004 till date and the present pattern in a few states where staff pay rates are yielded on the sacred place of different exigencies."

He said the instructors were on strike as a result of government refusal to pay Earned Academic Allowances, EAA; deficit in pay rates prompting to installment of parts of staff compensations; non-installment of pay rates of staff in the staff grade schools and exclusion of colleges from the Treasury Single Account, TSA.

He said different reasons were non-arrival of assets for the rejuvenation of state funded colleges; non-arrival of subventions to state colleges by the guests and non-installment of staff pay rates and refusal to issue permit for the enrollment of the Nigerian University Pension Management Company, NUPEMCO.