The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has refused the plans of he Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to include private universities in the country as beneficiaries of its projects.
Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the ASUU President had revealed the position of the union during a two-day interactive session between TETFund and all unions of beneficiary institutions. Osodeke had also argued that such moves would lead to the escalation of private universities lacking of quality.
Osodeke had urged the TETFund to work more on the investigative method of its projects across the country, stressing that the level of performance by the beneficiary institutions was not in tandem, as some of them received the same amount of money.
In Osodeke’s words:
“ASUU will keep embarking on strike until the right thing is done in the tertiary institutions across the country. The Stakeholders fund should be terminated.”
Also speaking at the event, Sonny Echono, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, had highlighted that the interactive section was for the purpose of bolstering steady growth and development in tertiary education.
Echono had also harped on the need to continuously engage and challenge one another on how best to improve the situation.
