Governors have degraded State Universities – ASUU

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has accused state governments of neglecting universities established by their predecessors.

He told newsmen on Monday in Abuja that many states had failed to fully implement the 2009 agreement in which they participated.

“State governments have been neglecting universities that they established and some state governors are going ahead to establish new ones while those brought to life by their predecessors in office are neglected to rot and die,” Ogunyemi said.

Ogunyemi cited Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Niger Delta University and the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso that yet to receive subventions for nine months.

“Why will a state governor say they cannot pay salaries when they have money to travel around,” he quipped.

“The question Nigerians should be asking them is what happened to their security vote?”

“Some state governors said they do not have money to pay salaries but they abandoned some universities to establish another one in the same state.

“Governors of Ondo and Edo States are clear examples. They abandoned the ones they met instead of maintaining them.

“Our union will not hesitate to defend the right of citizens to the right to education guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution, to avert a looming crisis in the Nigerian university system,” the ASUU leader assured.