You Are Deceiving Nigerians ––ASUU Blasts Okonjo-Iweala
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said the
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy,
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is lying to the entire nation.
“This is a government that signed an agreement with us
on January 24, 2012 to the effect that they would inject
N100 billion as funding into the universities in the first
one month and that before the end of 2012, they would
inject another N300 billion. The same government did
not put down a kobo to any of these universities.
“ So, it is a sad story that we are hearing now that the
government cannot meet a demand of N87 billion
whereas the government said that they would keep on
putting N400 billion annually for three years
consecutively to the tune of about N1.2 trillion . If the
government is now saying it cannot meet N87billion,
Nigerians should know that this is not a government that
can be trusted for anything.
ASUU described as a misrepresentation of facts, the comment
made by Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, that the striking university
lecturers demanded N92 billion as earned allowances in the
2009 agreement.
Speaking through Chairman of University of Ibadan chapter,
Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, ASUU said the Federal Government and
the minister are not telling the truth.
In a statement, the union said: “I want Nigerians to ask the
minister where she got her figure of N92 billion from. There
was never a time that ASUU made a demand that is up to N92
billion. I think the 92 billion naira is just the imagination of the
Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the
Economy.”
Dr. Ajiboye clarified the issue noting that the earned
allowances jointly calculated with FG and ASUU in the 2009
agreement was N87 billion and it covers allowances for three
and a half years for thousands of lecturers in Nigerian
universities.
He stressed that the N87 billion was a compromise made by
ASUU by scaling down from N127 billion to N87 billion.
Consequently, Dr Ajiboye called on Nigerians to join ASUU is
saying NO to those whom he said were bent on destroying
public institutions, because their children are not in Nigeria.
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