The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the Federal Government of not being
It said that underfunding public universities in the country under the pretext that the government has no money was a deliberate attempt to introduce exorbitant school fees that the ordinary Nigerian cannot afford.
They sang solidarity songs and carried placards with various inscriptions such as: “ASUU calls for deployment of UTAS”, “ASUU rejects prorating of academics’ salaries”, “ASUU is more patriotic than FGN officials”, “Release withheld salaries of academics”, “We say no to privatization of public universities”, “IPPIS & Pro-rata payment to academics are diversions from our demands,” among others.
“After suspending the 8-month-old strike due to a court order and interventions of well-meaning Nigerians, the government went so low as to withhold salaries of ASUU members and only paid pro-rata the October salary. The Union rejects the casualization of Nigerian academics. “While the union is struggling day and night to ensure that the government fulfils the agreement it willingly signed with the Union, the governments at State and Federal levels became politically obsessed with the establishment of public universities, even where it is evidently clear that the existing ones are grossly underfunded.
Also speaking, the Bauchi Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Lawan Abubakar, accused the federal government of systematic attempts to destroy public universities in Nigeria by allowing strikes to linger for a long time.
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