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ASUU Berates FG Over Poor Funding Of Education Sector

The University of Benin Branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has berated the federal government over what it’s described as the poor funding of the education sector.

The union lamented that the university’s lecturers have been abandoned to grapple with the harsh realities of an abysmally poor salary structure following the failure of the federal government to honour its agreement with the union.

The University lecturers also appealed to the federal government to honour its agreement with the union and prevent the nation’s educational sector from sliding further into an undesirable level of decay and dysfunction.

Speaking at the University of Benin main campus, the branch chairman, Ray Chikogu; and Secretary, Success Abusomwan, lamented that the federal government is paying lip service to adequately fund the education system and fulfil its obligations to the nation’s university system and lecturers.

He said the federal government is yet to make good its promise to actualize the review of its dismal conditions and pay up years of arrears of promotion entitlements of lecturers.

“For the records, the renegotiation of the FGN-ASUU 2009 Agreement that took about four years and was eventually concluded with a draft document in May 2021, the federal government has refused to sign the said document for implementation”.

The union, however, called on all well-meaning Nigerians, students, parents, Civil Society Organisations, and the Nigerian Labour Congress, among others to prevail on the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the union.

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