ASUU to clash with Fashola over School fees

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 unions 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.