ASUU TO CLASH WITH FASHOLA OVER RISE IN LASU'S TUITION FEE

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 union’s 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.”