Governor Babatunde Fashola
President
of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has said
that the union will resist the rise in tuition fee at the Lagos State
University.
He added that the establishment of
universities by the government should be for knowledge acquisition
rather than for profit making.
While speaking at a symposium organised
by the Education Rights Campaign group held at the University of Ibadan,
Fagge said the hike in tuition fee would not take care of
infrastructural demands in LASU but would deny children of the poor
masses access to public education.
He said, “Universities are not
commercial centres for internally generated revenues but knowledge
production centres. The new fee introduced by the school would have come
earlier than now but it was halted by the intervention of ASUU through a
delegation led by Dr. Dipo Fashina.
“ASUU will not support hike in fees in
any public university in Nigeria. The union’s final response will be
determined by the outcome of the meeting of delegates sent to meet the
visitor Governor Babatunde Fashola and the Vice-Chancellor of LASU,
Prof. John Obafunwa.
The ASUU boss also called for a review
of immunity clause in the Nigerian Constitution and exposure of corrupt
public officers in order to reduce the cost of governance in the
country.
He said, “The law which protects leaders
from being prosecuted for stealing public money during their reign is
against the masses. The law is against those who are daily suffering
from the consequences of unchecked stealing and pilfering of the
collective wealth of the nation.”
Source PUNCH.
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