The National President of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge has said, they are yet to
receive allocations which were agreed upon last year by the union and
the Federal Government. According to him, the Minister for Education,
Nyesom Wike, was made the head of the implementation committee who is
meant to meet with them regularly for discussions, but has never been
available due to his busy schedules.We have also asked that another
person who is less busy be made available to us, but the government is
yet to do that, he said.
“The
minister has been busy all this while and now he has travelled again.
We had requested that someone who is less busy be given to us so that we
can have regular meetings but it has not been the case. We hope that
when the minister returns from his latest trip, our 2013 allocation out
of the N200 billion for the revitalisation of our universities will be
disbursed. Part of our agreement also was the fact that our annual
allocation of N220 billion will be made available on a quarterly basis.
So, we expect that part of the amount for the first quarter will be
disbursed as well when we finally meet”, he said.
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