The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) condemned the federal government’s move to dissolve university governing bodies across the country on Thursday.
The union urged President Bola Tinubu to reverse his outrageous decision to dissolve the councils without finishing their terms of office.
Comrade Christopher Piwuna of the University of Jos, National Vice Chairman of ASUU, spoke while presenting a paper at an event honouring retiring lecturers at the Joseph Sarwuaan Tarka University Makurdi (JOSTUM), formerly known as the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), in Benue State.
Piwuna said, “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 conspire to ruin our universities if such brazen disregard for the laws establishing the universities is not checked”.
