The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) yesterday denied the claim by the federal government that
it demanded N92billion as earned allowances in the 2009 agreement.
Apparently reacting to the claim by
the minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, Dr Okonjo
Iweala, that the federal government cannot meet the N92billion allowances being
demanded by ASUU, the University of Ibadan chairman of ASUU, Dr Olusegun
Ajiboye, described the claim as a lie.
It challenged the executive arm of
government to publish how much it receives yearly as allowances for Nigerians
to see those draining the resources of the country, just he described Dr Okonjo
Iweala’s claim as a concocted falsehood and a figment of her imagination.
Ajiboye disclosed that the earned
allowances jointly calculated by the government and ASUU in the 2009 agreement
amounted to N87billion and covers allowances for three and half years for
thousands of lecturers in Nigerian universities, a compromise figure that was
scaled down from the original N127billion.
While calling on Nigerians to rise
against people who were bent on destroying public institutions, it accused
Okonjo-Iweala of being an agent of the World Bank and International Monetary
Fund (IMF) who has been planted in Nigeria to destroy public institutions.
He explained that the N87billion
naira was computed based on 15 per cent of the annual recurrent expenditure of
some Nigerian universities.
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