It’s Impossible for FG to Give ₦1.1 Trillion Naira to ASUU

Governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi has disclosed that it’s practically impossible for ASUU to ask for 1.1 Trillion Naira because the Nigerian federal government can’t go and borrow that amount of money to pay them.

The Ebonyi State governor has disclosed that there is no way the Federal government can borrow N1.1 trillion, in order to meet the demand of the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Let me take you down memory lane a little. The ASUU union announced that they’ll be embarking on a warning strike, from February 14th, 2022. There are various reasons given by the union for embarking on this strike, and among other things, the union are demanding the full implementation of the 2009 agreement it signed with the Federal Government.

While speaking to members of the Board of Trustees of Nigeria Police Trust Fund who paid him a courtesy visit at the new Government House, in the state capital, Abakaliki on Wednesday, August 10, Governor Umahi said and I quote below;

“I think it is near impossible for ASUU to get that amount of money they are requesting now. Why can’t we sit down with our ASUU leaders and iron out this problem about the ASUU strike and let students go back to the classroom again?.

There are countless stories on social media and newspapers, of how students got into trouble just by sitting at home or engaging in means of keeping themselves busy instead of being in schools. In all honesty, there is no way the country, Nigeria will go and borrow 1.1trillion to meet ASUU’s demand. It’s quite unreasonable. Are their demands genuine? Yes, but we can start little by little and the federal government can pay off ASUU the money they are being owed.

There must be commitment on the side of both parties , ASUU is not asking this to take to their houses so to say, they are asking it for our children to better the infrastructure, to better the lecturers and the students. Yes, but we can start with a fraction of that and then have a programme that will run on the platform of sincerity to address all the lots.

But let me also say that most of the time, our people have low appetite for maintenance of public works. No matter how much you deploy to these universities, unless the users, the industry, the regulators  begin to treat public infrastructure as their own in the various universities, it will continue to go bad no matter how much the federal government deploys to it.”

What do you think of Governor Dav Umahi statement on this lingering ASUU strike?

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