The Academic
Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described as illegal all the 16
universities and other higher institutions established by the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, saying they lack the
necessary legal backing and so may be living on borrowed time. This remark was made by the union’s National President, Dr. Issa Fagge
Nasir, while commenting on the recent conversion of four colleges of
education to universities by the Federal Executive Council, FEC. Nasir,
in an exclusive interview with New Telegraph, described the conversion
as an assault on the Acts establishing the colleges, adding that
universities are not only established via executive fiats but through
thorough consultations with stakeholders and deep understudy of the pros
and cons of such decisions.
He said, “Our quarrel with the
government is that universities are not just established by executive
fiats like this administration is doing. So the Federal Government is
only compounding the problems already bedeviling the education sector
and I wonder if the incoming administration will allow this to stand.
“Strictly speaking, the Federal Government is not respecting its own
laws, and I wonder how you just transmute an institution without looking
at its laws. What happens to its staff, facilities and infrastructure?
He said academic institutions like universities are the bedrock for
national development and so are not run without defined mandate and
vision, and that using them to achieve political gains will only further
compound the nation’s problems.
He, therefore, called on the
incoming administration to critically assess these decisions and make
impartial judgment that will benefit the mass of the people and return
the country’s education sector’s lost glory.
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