Prof. Lawan G. Abubakar,zonal         coordinator ASUU, Bauchi zone

By Daniel Dauda, Jos



The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have kick against agitations on the reopening of Universities by stakeholders, amidst prevailing and unresolved COVID-19 pandemic and ASUU strike.

You could recall, recently there were blamed at different quarters across Nigeria by stakeholders accusing ASUU as being responsible for the inability of the Federal Government to announce the school reopening.

Addressing a press conference at the ASUU Secretariat, University of Jos, Tuesday, Zonal Coordinator, ASUU, Bauchi zone, Prof. Lawan G. Abubakar said" our position is Government should not reopen Universities until they have do the needful."

According to the union,the dimension within what the union has follow about failure of government to make our various University funding; especially the issue of poor fundings of Tertiary institutions by way of providing standard facilities for better learning.

"And the Covid-19 pandemic has clearly exposed the poor funding of our health institutions and particularly the educational institutions which further shows there are fundamental issues which needs to be address 

"And the union is not said the school should continue closed but what the union is saying is that; neither the COVID- 19 pandemic nor the ASUU strike is the reason to justify the continue closure of the practice but fundamentally the government has failed.

"They have failed to address the obvious issues  because there is no commitment to the Nigerian State. The facilities that is needed in the educational and health sector does not come to fruition yet. Is not all about pretending, you put protocols in place and there is no facilities to comply with the protocols." ASUU lamented.




On the issue of Integrated payroll and personnel Information System(IPPIS), the union raised alarm over accountant general of the Federation desperate attempts to impose process in the Universities.

"New trend in the desperate attempts of the Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, to implement IPPIS in the Universities has exposed his excesses and how he has taken laws into his own hands.

"We would want to advise AGF to assist Nigeria and Nigerians in curbing Mega-corruption in the many MDAs that have recently been exposed in this bad light.

"We have mechanisms to check any form of corruption in Nigerian Universities, as is being done in University of Lagos now!

ASUU also appeal to parents and students to reason with them and remain calm as they are working assiduously to make sure the right thing is done to better the Nigerian University system.