The
Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday faulted the statement
credited to the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, that the
union demanded for N92bn, describing the claim as false.
ASUU said it never demanded such amount as earned allowances in the 2009 agreement it reached with the Federal Government.
Okonjo-Iweala had on Wednesday in Minna, said the Federal Government couldn’t meet the N92bn allowances as demanded by ASUU.
The univerisity lecturers, in a
statement by the University of Ibadan branch chairman, Dr. Olusegun
Ajiboye, described the amount mentioned by the minister as “a the
imagination of the minister.”
Ajiboye explained that the earned
allowances, the union and the governemnt calculated in the 2009
agreement, amounted to N87b, which covered allowances for three and half
years for the lecturers in the nation’s universities.
He said, the N87bn was a compromise made by ASUU to scale down from N127bn.
He added that the N87bn was computed based on 15 per cent of the yearly recurrent expenditures of some nation’s universities.
The statement stated, “I want Nigerians
to ask the minister where she got her figure of N92bn from. There was
never a time that ASUU made a demand that is up to N92bn. I think the
N92bn is just the imagination of the minister.
“But that is not to say that this government did not enter into an
agreement with us. This is a government that signed an agreement with us
on January 24, 2012 to the effect that they would inject N100bn as
funding into the universities in the first one month and that before
the end of 2012, they would inject another N300bn.’’
At every crisis these ple want to chop money na waooooo, so where is the 5Bn going to? Excess Crude account or Excess Education account ehhh minister? Take am easy ooooo, this is just a tip of the ice berg abt wht goes on with government expenditures....God is watchin and we re watching too, one day monkey will go to the market and not return...rubbish
ReplyDeleteAt every crisis these ple want to chop money na waooooo, so where is the 5Bn going to? Excess Crude account or Excess Education account ehhh minister? Take am easy ooooo, this is just a tip of the ice berg abt wht goes on with government expenditures....God is watchin and we re watching too, one day monkey will go to the market and not return...rubbish
ReplyDeleteWhat the Ministry/minister did was not a genuine mistake. That is what happens in almost all gov't establishments until budgets go way out of reach and the projects are abandoned. Check well, a large chunk of the 100bn and 300bn that was to be injected would have been inflated to the level that we would probably still be crying wolf of the university system today. We are all guilty of the same offense. However, just between ASUU and the ministry, a difference of 5bn is outrageous and must be condemned. Some LGCs probably do not get that much in 6 months. These drain pipes must be blocked.
ReplyDeleteASUU every time you are on strike asking for money this and that but what innovation or finding can be credited to a Nigerian ASUU menber lecturer? You see, in America and else where the Professors are hot cake because Companies and other private organisation struggle for their hand in research and give them billions of dollars for research. Here, Even the much that they receive ,they lavish it on porsche cars, girl friends, concubines and at the end they take up one triditional titles.Therefore ASUU think of improving the your ability to generate fund through cutting edge research instead of these useless and baseles strikes all the time. Nigeria is not the only country that have Tertiary institutions.One strike too many.Period!
ReplyDeleteThe only way ASSU will condemn the over earnings of the members executive ,legislature and judiciary is to make useless demand every time .How many of the Nigerian lecturers engage themselves in pure academic work? The day the war between Nigerians and the Nigerian politicians will be over you will be the next .
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