By Agboola Bayo
Ibadan
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday declared that the federal government is yet to fully implement the 2009 agreement as it presently owes the union N1.1trilion.
ASUU stated this in a release entitled: “Iyayi must not die in Vain”, made available to newsmen in Ibadan and signed by its Ibadan zonal coordinator, Professor Segun Ajiboye.
According to ASUU, it was embarrassing that since 2013 when the union suspended its strike, universities in Nigeria were yet to get any intervention fund aside the initial N200 billion released in 2013 out of the N1.3 trillion agreement signed with the union, saying, nothing was injected in 2014 and 2015.
The union stressed that academic staff in Nigerian universities were becoming restive because of the failure of government to attend fully to the agreement reached with the union and that it was high time the government of President Muhammadu Buhari invested in education for a secured future of the country.
ASUU pointed out that heroic leaders around the world invested in education and ensured it was available for the children of the masses to have access, noting that “the future remains bleak until adequate investment is committed to education.
“At the University of Ibadan we have appraised the state of education since the 2013 struggle. We are sad to say that not much has been achieved. We remain resolute to fight for qualitative education in Nigeria to liberate the minds of our people and the masses because a mind that knows is a mind that is free”.