"Does anyone have a copy of the 2009 agreement between government and ASUU that is supposedly the cause of the current strike? I cannot find it anywhere online and the links to it on the ASUU website are all dead. But I did find this press conference by the ASUU president, Nassir Isa at Unilag on August 22nd. Please read it. From it we can deduce that there was an agreement for the government to spend around N1.3trn (they will manage N100bn for now while N400bn is released to them each year for 3 years) on our universities over 3 years to 'restore their lost glory once and for all'. Apparently this amount was arrived at 'scientifically'. Please note that this is only for universities and not education in general.
- Feyi Fawehinmi
http://aguntasolo.com/2013/09/28/asuu-part-deux-this-time-the-facts-and-only-a-bit-of-speculation/
- Challenging writing but Interesting!
In the 2013 budget, education got the highest allocation with N432bn. Of this amount, more than half (N291bn) already goes on universities. But ASUU want another N400bn. Perhaps no amount is too much to be spent on education but when you read the ASUU president's statement, you quickly realise what this is all about – it's a shakedown operation by experienced shakedown artistes. He is invoking the amount given to Nollywood and airlines and banks i.e. we want our own too. There is an ongoing debate about how the government spends our money very badly and this was part of the conversation during the fuel subsidy protests. Salaries and such like will consume N1.72trn in 2013. This is madness and we all know that if we break away from this model, so many things will improve even if only marginally."
- Feyi Fawehinmi
http://aguntasolo.com/2013/09/28/asuu-part-deux-this-time-the-facts-and-only-a-bit-of-speculation/
- Challenging writing but Interesting!
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