President Goodluck Jonathan has described the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as political and very unfortunate.
The president said this Sunday night during the presidential media chat, asking the union to
suspend the over three-month-old strike.
He reiterated his administration’s commitment to addressing the issue of decayed infrastructure in the universities, saying all the
problems in the universities could not be solved overnight.
The president said the nation’s universities ought to be truly autonomous, saying however
that “autonomy without responsibilities is a potential for crisis.” He also queried why state universities had to join the strike since they were not created by
the Federal Government which reached agreements with the ASUU in 2009. According to him, “We set a team and they visited all the universities and took assessments of the inventory, and we are starting with N100billion. We have seen the reality; we
cannot do that for fun. So, we expect the ASUU to work with us. It is quite unfortunate. Definitely, politics has come into some of these things. These allowances are supposed to be paid from internally generated revenue,” he
said
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