The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) has warned that the stifling of education funding under the
Muhammadu Buhari government is preparing the country for a greater future doom.
It stated that the nonchalant
attitude of the Buhari-led government to education appears to be the worst in
the history of Nigeria with about 7 percent allocation to Education.
Chairman, University of Ibadan
branch of ASUU, Dr. Deji Omole, who stated this on Monday in an interview with
journalists, noted that the failure to vote enough money to public varsity
education is already causing gradual crisis of confrontation between University
administration and students in some parts of the country.
Omole said, “It will be difficult
to have a citizen that will love the country in the future if the current trend
of abandoning the poor while taking care of the rich continues. While each
senators is paid N13.5million as running cost per month the same Senate appropriated
a paltry sum of N66million for capital projects for University of Ibadan with
students population of about 30,000.
“This can only happen where the
ruling class lacks vision like Nigeria. This same government refuses to drop a
kobo for the revitalization of public universities. Now many children of the
masses are denied access because universities cannot admit beyond what the
dilapidated infrastructure can take. Yet their parents cannot afford private
university. the federal government is owing about N800billion revitalization
funds to public varsities as contained in the agreements with ASUU.”
The ASUU, who vowed that the
union will oppose any plan to force children of the masses out of school by
imposing on them dues that are the duties of federal government, asserted that
the ruling APC has performed poorly in Education.
According to him, the United
States of America that members of the elite takes their children to funds her
public varsities because the USA is interested in bridging the gap between the
rich and the poor, and knows the negative implication of having a growing pool
of illiterates as we have in Nigeria.
Omole maintained that the Buhari
government has paid lip service to public education but prefers to pacify
militants and terrorists.
The ASUU chairman stated that
while the masses are groaning in hardship, the political class have increased
their number and stored enough money taken from the collective patrimony in
preparation for the 2019 general elections.
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