ASUU Ends NEC Meeting At IMSU By Charles Ogugbuaja, Owerri on October 18, 2015 12:09 am

Imo State University

TEACHERS from various universities, under the
aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU), ended their National Executive Council
(NEC), meeting at the Imo State University,
Owerri, on Tuesday, with the call to the Federal
and state governments to perform their duties of
funding universities and depend less on the
provision of Tertiary Education Trust Fund
(TETFund).
In a statement signed by the union’s president,
Dr. Nasir F. Isa, a copy of which was made
available to The Guardian, ASUU condemns the
unhealthy moves by state governments to
abandon the responsibility of funding their
universities.
“We note with displeasure that most of these
universities rely mainly on intervention grants
from TETFUND and the new Needs Assessment
Special Fund for physical structures and supplies,
while the presence or commitment of state
governments is almost zero. These developments
are unacceptable to our union.”
The statement called for resistance to alleged
abandonment of funding of public universities,
adding that the arrangement of TETFund could
be traced to the FGN/ASUU Negotiation of 1992
and agreement reached.
In the quest to ensure that ‘teaching, research
and services’ go on in the university system, the
union warned against some alleged unacceptable
policies carried by some vice chancellors and
chairmen, Governing Board of some universities,
alien to the university system, calling for stop to
such.