The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has blamed the immediate past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and the current governor, Yemi Cardoso for being responsible for infrastructural deficits in public universities.
Speaking with Channels Television’s Inside Sources, ASUU National President, Emmanuel Osodeke said the duo refused to continue the implementation of a support fund for universities set up by former CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi.
Osodeke argued that the CBN has intervention funds meant for universities but the disbursement was discontinued by Emefiele.
“So, we should ask you if the CBN governor is watching me: how did Emir Sanusi generate that money to put projects in all the federal and many state universities in this country within four years?
“If what Sanusi did when he was CBN governor was followed by other CBN governors, we would not be talking about projects in universities but the next one came and that is the end,” he said.
He criticised the current CBN governor for not revisiting the funds and rescue public universities from infrastructural deficits.
He added: “There’s a new person there now and nobody is talking about that fund again; they call it (the fund) Community Social Responsibility, it’s there.
“He (Cardoso) is a year in office, has he done anything? Have you seen any project in any university?”
Federal Universities are putting the financial burden of running universities on students by hiking fees, as the government cuts down funding of education.
This has sparked protests in various universities including the University of Ibadan, the University of Benin, and the University of Lagos, among others.
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