The Academic Staff Union of University ASUU has urged the government to concentrate efforts at finding a quick resolution of the impasse rather than dissipate energy on fake news and cheap propaganda aimed at tarring the union’s image.
The union also call on the Vice-Chancellors and Council Chairmen of public universities to join forces with ASUU in its struggles to attract requisite funding into our public universities rather than working at cross purposes with us.
ASUU in a statement signed Ade Adejumo Zonal coordinator, Ibadan zone, ASUU said part of the least expected from them is to come out openly to put the record straight each time the government come out with the deliberate falsehood that money has been released to ASUU.
“For umpteenth time, let it be known that our union is a patriotic organisation whose activities are driven by principled conviction that the resources of the country can better be managed for the ultimate benefit of the Nigerian society, especially the education sector which is our immediate constituency. ”
“The government and all civilized individuals are aware of how the university is managed, so also the resources available to it. The government knows that it is the council and the university administration that receive and spend all the money coming into the university. ASUU doesn’t receive money from government and doesn’t spend it.”
“Even money meant for our salaries and other allowances come directly to the university administration which prepares the the budget and manages it. ASUU members collect only their salaries as paid by the university. Contracts and all the capital projects are awarded by the councils that are appointed by the government, not ASUU. ” Adejumo submitted.
