The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Abuja Zone, has expressed its dissatisfaction with the central government for reducing amount allocated to Federal Universities as personnel expenditure.
Coordinator of the Abuja z0ne, which comprised of: University of Abuja, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nasarawa State University, Keffi and Ibrahim Babangida University, Lapai – Prof. Suleiman Muhammed, stated that the cut had adversely affected the union.
He said that relevant authorities like the Federal Ministry of Finance and Budget Office seemed not to understand how the university system worked.
“With deeply worrisome concerns, ASUU-Abuja Zone wishes to bring to the notice of the general public the unilateral drastic cut by the Federal Government of Nigeria in the personnel expenditure allocations to Federal Universities across the country.
Mohammed noted that it was wrong for the FGN to implement unilateral pay-cut in university workers’ salaries been a signatory to most International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions.
