Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, President of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU), has said there is no way the Federal Government
could stop funding universities in the country.
According to him, the funding of federal universities by
government is constitutional.
Osodeke said this in reaction to a statement credited to
Minister of Education Prof Tahir Mamman, who recently said that the Federal
Government will grant full autonomy to universities to explore new ways of
funding their activities.
He said: “There is no way the Federal Government of Nigeria
would say they would not fund public universities because it is there in the
law. It is there in the Constitution. Look at Section 18 of the Constitution;
it says university, primary, and secondary are free.
“The only problem is that it is not judicable; that’s the
only problem. So I said, I don’t think this government, from what we have seen,
is going to say we are going to hands off from university. If you check the
ratio of Nigeria’s education budget to our GDP, it’s one of the lowest in the
world.”
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