enue State governor Gabriel Suswam, who heads the FG’s Needs Assessment Committee, while speaking yesterday in Abuja during a meeting with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) said the government had to verify that the earned allowance being requested by ASUU is up to N92 billion.
Suswam also said the N30 billion was yesterday released to the Ministry of Education for immediate distribution to the university councils.
He said only the university councils could carry out such verification, noting that government cannot hand out money without verification.
He noted that government would release more money if after due process had been followed a deficit was noted.
He said, “On the issue of earned allowance, the government has accepted in principle the payment of earned allowance which ASUU valued at N92billion. What the FG has done is to release an initial sum of N30billion and we appealed to ASUU to go and verify exactly how much each person is owed so we would know how the figure of N92 billion was arrived at.”
Suswam disclosed that government had already released the N30billion in question the previous day to the Ministry of Education which would in turn release it to governing councils of the institutions and was then appealing to the lecturers to return to work.
“We have appealed to ASUU to take this initial sum and verify how much each person is being owed. If at the end of the day, we find out that we underpaid, we make up for the deficit but ASUU has refused this strategy, insisting that the entire lump sum of N92billion be paid to them upfront,” he said.
The governor also said the striking members of the ASUU have been unfair to Nigerian students even after government has taken great strides to meet their demands.
Also speaking, NANS president-, Yinka Gbadebo said the students decided to pay a visit to the governor so as to hear the government’s side of the story.
He said the students had earlier met with the leadership of ASUU, the minister of education and the executive secretary of NUC.
“We are here to hear your own side of the story because since the beginning of the strike, there has been so much pressure on us to go into the streets to protest but we don’t believe protest should be the first port of call. All we are told is that we the Nigerian students need to protest in order to coerce the government into meeting the demands of ASUU but we want to know firsthand what the government has done to ensure the reopening of our universities as soon as possible,” he said.
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State governor Gabriel Suswam, who heads the FG’s Needs Assessment
Committee, while speaking yesterday in Abuja during a meeting with the
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) said the government had
to verify that the earned allowance being requested by ASUU is up to
N92 billion.
Suswam also said the N30 billion was yesterday released to the
Ministry of Education for immediate distribution to the university
councils.
He said only the university councils could carry out such verification, noting that government cannot hand out money without verification.
He noted that government would release more money if after due process had been followed a deficit was noted.
He said, “On the issue of earned allowance, the government has accepted in principle the payment of earned allowance which ASUU valued at N92billion. What the FG has done is to release an initial sum of N30billion and we appealed to ASUU to go and verify exactly how much each person is owed so we would know how the figure of N92 billion was arrived at.”
Suswam disclosed that government had already released the N30billion in question the previous day to the Ministry of Education which would in turn release it to governing councils of the institutions and was then appealing to the lecturers to return to work.
“We have appealed to ASUU to take this initial sum and verify how much each person is being owed. If at the end of the day, we find out that we underpaid, we make up for the deficit but ASUU has refused this strategy, insisting that the entire lump sum of N92billion be paid to them upfront,” he said.
The governor also said the striking members of the ASUU have been unfair to Nigerian students even after government has taken great strides to meet their demands.
Also speaking, NANS president-, Yinka Gbadebo said the students decided to pay a visit to the governor so as to hear the government’s side of the story.
He said the students had earlier met with the leadership of ASUU, the minister of education and the executive secretary of NUC.
“We are here to hear your own side of the story because since the beginning of the strike, there has been so much pressure on us to go into the streets to protest but we don’t believe protest should be the first port of call. All we are told is that we the Nigerian students need to protest in order to coerce the government into meeting the demands of ASUU but we want to know firsthand what the government has done to ensure the reopening of our universities as soon as possible,” he said.
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He said only the university councils could carry out such verification, noting that government cannot hand out money without verification.
He noted that government would release more money if after due process had been followed a deficit was noted.
He said, “On the issue of earned allowance, the government has accepted in principle the payment of earned allowance which ASUU valued at N92billion. What the FG has done is to release an initial sum of N30billion and we appealed to ASUU to go and verify exactly how much each person is owed so we would know how the figure of N92 billion was arrived at.”
Suswam disclosed that government had already released the N30billion in question the previous day to the Ministry of Education which would in turn release it to governing councils of the institutions and was then appealing to the lecturers to return to work.
“We have appealed to ASUU to take this initial sum and verify how much each person is being owed. If at the end of the day, we find out that we underpaid, we make up for the deficit but ASUU has refused this strategy, insisting that the entire lump sum of N92billion be paid to them upfront,” he said.
The governor also said the striking members of the ASUU have been unfair to Nigerian students even after government has taken great strides to meet their demands.
Also speaking, NANS president-, Yinka Gbadebo said the students decided to pay a visit to the governor so as to hear the government’s side of the story.
He said the students had earlier met with the leadership of ASUU, the minister of education and the executive secretary of NUC.
“We are here to hear your own side of the story because since the beginning of the strike, there has been so much pressure on us to go into the streets to protest but we don’t believe protest should be the first port of call. All we are told is that we the Nigerian students need to protest in order to coerce the government into meeting the demands of ASUU but we want to know firsthand what the government has done to ensure the reopening of our universities as soon as possible,” he said.
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13 Comments for “ASUU Strike: Why FG Released Only N30bn — Suswam”
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I don’t knw d purpose of dis useless asuu, y are dey doing dis to we student,FG hav done dere part, y can’t dey reconcile and call off d strike den go back to table for renegotiate.everybody knw dey re fighting for dere own interest nt we student. Am very sure dat if FG release d 92billion for dem today, asuu will call off d strike. foolish asuunice
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Am surprise at ur comment so if u are d lecturer and u are owe ten naira and u protested and ur employ give u two naira u wil collect and thank God abi? Frm ur comment it has shown d kind of undergraduate u are make sound comment and dont show ur ignorant in public i pity ur parent who are wasting money on u in schAnonymous
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Y s asuu so so stupid n caln of d strik?Frm Marcus Y s irt dat asuu a very very stupid n not calnoff d strik for studnt to return bk to scu?
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asuu useless? you call your teachers useless? what then can you benefit from useless people? maybe the strike is called off today and you are made to pay 10k for each chapter of yr project before approval, pay for yr teachers to come to class if the class size is more than 70 people and also pay for yr marks, consumables for research,and forced to bring your generators to class then you will understand how useless asuu can be!Anonymous
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pls my frnd, mind ur comment. stop using abusive language on any of the party rather pray God’s intervention.Anonymous
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Leave God out of dis tell FG if u care to give d complete money moreover non of d executive members are being owe a dime or if are they saying they are not owing d lecturers?Anonymous
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@ anonymous,I can c u don’t hav sense at all, hv already knew d kind of person u re, dis is nt my first time of reading ur comment, all ur comment concerning d protest shows dat u always follow wateva people say, so I can’t blame u, if u listen to news I believe dat ur locked brain will open.u will knw wat asuu is fighting for.maybe ur father is among those thieves lecturer. Idiotnice
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Anonymous, y re u criticising student like u, instead of u to support him, if u listen to news yesterday,u will know wat dis guy is saying is d truth. Suswam said dey FG can’t just released d money for dem without a verification by the university council which is d truth.if u hav a company and ur workers just demand for some allowances without verification, will u give dem?ade
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Anonymous, y re u criticising a student like u, instead of u to support him, if u listen to news yesterday,u will know wat dis guy is saying is d truth. Suswam said dey FG can’t just released d money for dem without a verification by the university council which is d truth.if u hav a company and ur workers just demand for some allowances without verification, will u give dem?ade
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ade. sorry you have to believe a man who has been collecting salary for the past six months and his primary school teachers are on strike for more than six months this concluded academic year. same thing happened two sessions ago in his state. back to the bone of contention. three yrs ago cbn governor bailed three banks out with 400 billion without budgetary allocation and nobody said a thing. 92 billion covers excess workload and responsibility allowances. if you are sincere, how many lecturers have class size lass than 50 people to teach? what of marking of scripts? in some cases, a lecturer may be teaching more than two courses per semester and it is assumed that the class size is he unesco standard. haba! let govt not pay and keep establishing universities here and there and lets see how the economy will improve,Anonymous
supporting nice? his sentence construction is appalling for an undergraduate if he is one. lets build the educational sector with constructive criticism
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I think the issue on ground is that of agreement so FG should honour it. If the President could spend a whole day in his party’s convention, can’t he meet with ASUU himself as a lecturer instead delegating such to people who do not know the value of education.Jejelayegba
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supporting nice? his sentence construction is appalling for an undergraduate if he is one. lets build the educational sector with constructive criticism