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The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday accused the Federal Government of establishing \u201cmushroom\u201d varsities with no funding options.<\/div>\n
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\nThe union also noted that the universities have now become crisis centers with little to no hope of management.<\/p>\n

The plans according to a source were made to establish no fewer than 32 federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education across the country.<\/p>\n

The issue of the proliferation of universities by the government at all levels has also become a matter of concern for stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the statement issued on Sunday, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, urged the government to jettison the \u201cpoliticisation\u201d of universities.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the promise to release the withheld salaries of members of the union by the administration of President Bola Tinubu, the academic union noted that any further delay in the release of the monies might lead to a complete mess of \u201cwhat is left of the already devalued worth of the money\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne major fallout of our last struggle was the government\u2019s decision to stop the salaries of our members as a ploy to force us back to work even when the substantive issues in the strike action had remained unresolved. Curiously, the seven-and-a-half months\u2019 salaries remain unpaid even after we have done the work for which those salaries were held.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hoped that the process of payments is fast-tracked before the unmitigated inflationary trends in the country make a complete mess of what is left of the already devalued worth of the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cProper funding and running of the public universities \u2013 State and Federal \u2013 remains at the heart of our struggle for a university system which can drive national development and compete internationally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis informs our concern, among others, with the issue of the unbridled proliferation of state universities, which State Governors were fastly turning to mere constituency projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have several instances of states that are unable to fund their existing universities going ahead to establish more. In the process, such state governments only succeeded in creating crises centres rather than centres of excellence.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the Federal Government appears to have been bitten by the bug of mushrooming universities without giving thought to how to fund them. This sour point is still a work in progress for our union to combat.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf our university system is to maintain the integrity of credible universities, as known in other sane climes, more work is required to get Nigerian politicians to embrace the idea of developmental universities as against the prevalent over- politicisation of university education,\u201d the statement read.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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