of Universities (ASUU)
has blamed the rot in the
Nigerian education on the
Executive Secretary of
the National University
Commission, Julius Okojie,
saying his failure to insist
on quality is affected the system.
The lecturers also vowed to carry on with the strike
action unless the federal government consents to the
2009 agreement it had with the union.
In a statement signed by its University of Ibadan
branch chairman, Olusegun Ajiboye, ASUU renewed its
call for the scraping or a total overhaul of the
regulatory institution if the nation wishes to get it right
in university education management.
While calling on the National Assembly to look in to the
activities of the NUC, Mr. Ajiboye said the recent
NEEDS assessment report on universities reflects how
much the commission has failed in its duties as a
regulator.
According to him, the report undertaken by genuine
academics contradicts NUC’s accreditation exercises
which gave ‘controversial’ clean bill of health to most
universities through “magomago accreditation.”
The union contended that only in a society like ours
would Mr. Okojie still remain in office after being
heavily indicted in the report.
Mr. Okojie had, last week, absorbed his commission of
any wrongdoing in the rot plaguing public universities in
the country, particularly as regards undeserved
accreditation, blaming members of the ASUU instead.
Mr. Ajiboye, who described the statement credited to
the NUC boss as ‘careless’, accused Mr. Okojie of using
his cronies who can do his biddings to embark on
accreditation.
He said the success of the 2011 elections was based on
the patriotic zeal and contributions of genuine and
patriotic ASUU members nationwide saying that was
why the election was free of hanky-panky recorded in
past elections.
Source: Premium Times
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