The National President, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities,
Dr. Issa Fagge Nasir has stated that the 16 universities and other
higher institutions established by the administration of President
Goodluck Jonathan, lack the necessary legal backing and so may be living
on borrowed time.
He said this while commenting on the four Colleges of Education upgraded to Universities by the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
In
his words, “Our quarrel with the government is that universities are
not just established by executive fiats like this administration is
doing. So the Federal Government is only compounding the problems
already bedeviling the education sector and I wonder if the incoming
administration will allow this to stand.
“Strictly speaking, the
Federal Government is not respecting its own laws, and I wonder how you
just transmute an institution without looking at its laws. What happens
to its staff, facilities and infrastructure?”
He further stated
that the 500M Naira released by the Goodluck led administration as
take-off grant to the universities is not even enough to fund training
of staff not to talk of infrastructural Upgrade.
He finally
called on the incoming administration to critically assess these
decisions and make impartial judgment that will benefit the mass of the
people and return the country’s education sector’s lost glory.
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