ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano zone, has condemned Federal Government’s approach in warring against corruption, describing it as “scratching the problem on the surface.”
Addressing newsmen last week Tuesday at Bayero University, Kano (BUK), the zonal coordinator of the union, Mahmoud Lawan, regretted that what is more important to the Federal Government is the implementation and wholesale adoption of neo-liberal economic prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
He lamented that the stock in trade of the Federal Government was to continue to deny workers in university staff schools their salaries in utter breach of the 2009/Federal Government agreement.
According to Lawan, an atmosphere of despair and frustration now pervaded the nation’s citadels of learning.
He noted that rather than to concentrate on the adequate funding of universities, the ruling class was busy implementing IMF agenda, which was completely opposed to the growth of university system in the country.
Lawan also expressed concern that in most federal universities, only a fraction of salaries was being paid, with proportions as low as 40 per cent in some universities.
He said that ASUU members would no longer tolerate fractional payment of their salaries, which according to him, started since 2015.
“This capricious move government is making with our wages, we can no longer condone. Matters are even worse in some state universities, where members of staff often go for months without salary or on half salary,” he said.