Poor education funding fueling kidnapping — ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Akure zone, which consist of the leadership of academic staff members of public universities in Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States, yesterday criticize poor funding of the education sector.

Wakadaily learnt that, the zonal meeting of the union held in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, ASUU Akure Zonal Coordinator, Dr.Adeola Egbedokun, said poor funding of education was fueling the rising wave of violent crimes, especially kidnapping in the country.

Egbedokun who was bound by ASUU chairmen of OAU, Anthony Odiwe, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Pius Mogaji, Ekiti State University, Sola Afolayan, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Abayomi Fagbuagun, and University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Abraham Oladebeye, also accused the federal government of reneging on its promise to discard Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System for paying university lecturers.

The government is pretending about funding education. They are insincere because how can successive administrations arrange several meetings where agreements were signed and such agreements would not be apply? What has taken us to this particular quagmire is that the government failed to own up to the agreements signed with ASUU.

“At this point,  the 26%budgetary allocation the yardstick set by UNESCO. If the government is sincere, definitely government will surely know that it is the only solution to the present crisis that we find ourselves in.

“Most of these people that are creating insecurity, the hoodlums, perhaps it was because they didn’t have sufficient education. If education had been properly funded, definitely there wouldn’t have been any need for agitation from members of staff because they would have been paid.

“Presently as we talk some people are hiding in the bush looking for who to kidnap because the government has surreptitiously removed them from having education. Education happens to be the only saving grace for people to live a good life,” he added.

Zainab Odunayo
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