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Poor Education Funding Fueling Kidnapping – ASUU
Eko Hot Blog reports that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Akure Zone has blamed poor funding of education for contributing to the rising wave of violent crimes, especially kidnapping, in the country.
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Addressing journalists on Monday ahead of a zonal meeting at Obafemi Awolowo University, ASUU Akure Zonal Coordinator Dr. Adeola Egbedokun said “Most of these people that are creating insecurity, the hoodlums, perhaps it was because they didn’t have sufficient education. If education had been properly funded, definitely there wouldn’t have been any need for agitation from members of staff because they would have been paid.”
He accused the federal government of failing to honor agreements signed with ASUU regarding education funding and salaries. “The government is insincere about funding education. They are insincere because how can successive administrations arrange several meetings where agreements were signed and such agreements would not be implemented?” Egbedokun said.
Egbedokun decried the use of the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS) to pay owed salaries to ASUU members. “What has taken us to this particular quagmire is that the government failed to own up to the agreements signed with ASUU,” he said.
The ASUU coordinator also reaffirmed the union’s rejection of the enforcement of Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standard, saying curriculum development remains the duty of each university’s Senate.
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Demanding the immediate release of promotion arrears owed to ASUU members, Egbedokun said Nigerians should not blame the union for continuous unrest on campuses, noting “the government has continued to unleash hardship on the university system.”
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