The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has faulted the federal government’s decision to dissolve the governing councils in universities across the federation.
The academic union said it is wrong for the federal government to dissolve governing councils of universities and transfer their powers to either the Ministry of Education or the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The National Vice Chairman of ASUU, Comrade Christopher Piwuna, of the University of Jos, said on Thursday while presenting a paper at an event organised in honour of retiring lecturers at the Joseph Sarwuaan Tarka University Makurdi (JOSTUM), formerly called the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), in Benue State, OsunDailyNG learned.
He said it would be in the best interest of all if President Bola Tinubu could reverse what the academic union described as an obnoxious decision to dissolve the councils without completing their tenures of office.
Piwuna noted that “It is wrong to dissolve governing councils and transfer the powers of our councils to the Federal Ministry of Education or the National Universities Commission (NUC) without due recourse to the university laws.
“It is also a disservice to the universities to allow a vacuum because mischievous vice-chancellors and ministry officials could connive to ruin our universities if such brazen disregard for the laws establishing the universities is not checked.”
