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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