ASUU Claims Federal Government Has Refused to Meet It’s Demands Again

The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU on Wednesday said it would continue to embark on industrial actions until the Federal government meets its demands.

Subsequently, the union is against any plan by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund to include private universities in the country as beneficiary institutions of its projects.

The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, made the union’s position known at a two-day interactive session between TETFund and all unions of beneficiary institutions.

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Osodeke maintained that such a move would lead to the proliferation of private universities devoid of quality.

While commending TETFund on delivery, he urged the fund to work more on the monitoring method of its projects across the country stressing that the level of performance by the beneficiary institutions is not in tandem as some of them received the same amount of money.

He also called on TETFund to apply sanctions on non-performing institutions and advocate for the abolition of what he referred to as the “stakeholders fund”

According to him, “ASUU will continue to embark on strike until the right thing is done by the federal government in our tertiary institutions. Stakeholders fund should be abolished”.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, disclosed that the interactive session was conceived as a proactive engagement against the backdrop of the prevailing challenges in the sub-sector, while calling on the federal government to look into the issues If they want to prevent the constant Strike.

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