Don’t establish universities you cannot fund, SSANU cautions governors
State governors in Nigeria have been cautioned not establish universities they cannot fund just to make political statements.
The North East Zone of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) made this caution in a communique on Friday after its zonal meeting in Maiduguri.
The communique was read by its National Vice President, North East, Mr Abdulkadir Isa.
In it, SSANU called on all levels of government to invest massively in education, saying that the neglect and poor funding of universities by some governors to the detriment of teaching and research is a matter that required urgent attention.
The communique condemned what it described as provocative, the formula used for sharing the N22.1 billion released by Federal Government for the Earned Allowances at the rate of 75 per cent for teaching staff and 25 per cent for non-teaching staff.
It called for an urgent review on the development.
“The union is concerned that the non-teaching units of the universities are being usurped by teaching staff in violation of the condition of service and establishment procedures.
“On pending cases of earned allowances, the union noted that both the Federal and State Governments still owed the arrears of earned allowances derived from the Federal Government/SSANU 2009 agreement. We demand for the full payment and implementation of same, in staff monthly salaries.
“We are against the forceful retirement of our members at the age of 60 in violation of 65 years agreement, in state universities,” the communique said.
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