At a briefing in Lagos, ASUU's President, Dr. Isa Faggae, claimed that government had declared it would not implement the agreed injection of funds to revitalise the public universities, but was only making a dubious
statement of supporting some universities with N100 billion. He said: "Government had also declared that
it will not pay university academics their earned allowances which accumulated from2009 to 2013. Rather, it is talking about providing N30 billion to assist various
Governing Councils of Federal Universities to defray the arrears of N92 billion owed to all categories of staff in the university system." Narrating the union's experience at the last meeting with the Government held on Monday,
Faggae said: ASUU was shocked by the level. of deceit, dishonesty, and lack of integrity. displayed by the Government. Never in the history of ASUU-Government relations have we, as a union, ever experienced the kind of volte-face exhibited by Government. At one stage in the interaction, the Secretary to the Government Federation ridiculed the agreement, the MoU and the Needs Assessment Report, mocking the Minister of
Education to "go and give them N400 billion," at which members of the government scornfully laughed."
He argued that the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led Implementation Committee was being used as smokescreen to "deceive ASUU, Nigerian students and their parents, as well as other unsuspecting members of the public on the purportedly released N100 billion for the implementation of the Needs Assessment Report.
