UNVEILED:ASUU Blasts NUC,While Strike Continues.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities
said the existence of the National
Universities Commission has not brought
improvement to the standard of education
in the country.
The union also said that it would not call
off the strike because of the mere promise
made by the Federal Government to
provide revitalisation fund for the
university system.
ASUU also called on the National Assembly
to investigate the activities of NUC with a
view to determining the continued
relevance or otherwise of the university
supervisory body.
If found irrelevant, ASUU said it should be
scrapped.
Chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan
chapter, Dr. Olusegun Ajiboye, who spoke
in Ibadan noted that the NUC boss, Prof.
Julius Okojie, had concentrated the effort of
the university regulatory body on quantity
rather than quality while issuing
accreditation to universities.
Ajiboye said, “Okojie should take full
responsibility for all his deeds in the NUC.
Nigerians should be proud of ASUU in its
efforts at repositioning public universities
in the country.”

The union leader added that the result of
the assessment exercise of NUC carried out
by the National Economic Empowerment
Development Strategy should be used to
judge the relevance of NUC and its leader
rather than the self-assessment of the
regulatory agency.
He said some of the accreditations granted
by NUC were enmeshed in controversy,
wondering why the National Assembly had
not taken action on the controversies
surrounding the accreditations so far
recorded.

He said, “One of the efforts of ASUU to
reposition education in the country is the
NEEDS Assessment document.

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This was a product of a rigorous academic exercise
carried out by dependable and credible
members of our union. Unlike the
numerous faulty accreditation reports
which had given these universities clean bill
of health, the NEEDS Assessment Report
stands out as a classical document of
reference detailing the rot and decay in
public universities in Nigeria.

“All well meaning Nigerians can see the
contrast between Okojie’s packaged
accreditation reports and a credible job
done by ASUU. It has become very clear
from the assessment document that Okojie
and his people have fooled this country for
too long. Time is now for government to
beam a searchlight on the activities of the
NUC. The education committees in both the
Senate and House of Representatives have
an arduous task to do here. Nigerians are
calling for dismantling of an omnibus body
that has done the country more harm than
good.”

ASUU also reiterated its commitment to the
current effort to gain Federal Government
consent to its demand, saying that the
strike would not be called off based on
mere government promise.

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Meanwhile, a non-governmental
organisation, Do It Right Foundation, has
appealed to the Federal Government and
ASUU to work hard and resolve the
lingering crisis that has shut down the
education sector.
In a statement on Sunday, President and
National Coordinator of the foundation,
Mr. Dixon Jubril, called on the university
lecturers to give room for re-opening of the
universities in the interest of the students.

“It has become a burden on both the
government and ASUU to save the
education sector from collapse by finding a
common ground for the amicable
resolution of the crisis. What both parties to
the dispute must have in mind is that while
the situation lingers it is the future of the
students that is at stake.

“We call on ASUU in particular to shift
ground a bit for the common good of the
education system. It’s our belief that the
time has come for ASUU to devise other
means of settling its disputes with
government instead of the constant
disruption of academic activities with its
attendant socio-economic implications.”

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