Academic Staff Union of Universities President, Mr.Emmanuel Osodeke, says that most state governors are building state universities to enable them to get TETFUND grants. They are building universities they cannot fund.
While he spoke during an interview, Osedeke opened up that majority of the state governors go head to duplicate their state universities to also have a ‘piece of the pie’ from TETFUND- Tertiary Education Trust Fund.
“Any governor today establishing a university is eyeing TETFund as a source of funding,” the ASUU president said.
“TETFund was created as an intervention fund, not the major funding. The universities belong to the federal government, and the government is supposed to fund them, while states are supposed to fund their own.”
“It is an intervention fund, but there are people who want to have access to that money from the political circle, from the bureaucratic circle, at all costs. We are struggling with that.”
The ASUU president also suggested a solution to the problem, stating that a structure should be created to carry stakeholders along with information on how the fund is allocated and spent to enhance transparency of the organization.
“There should be a stakeholders’ meeting to assess what you want to do with the funds,” he added.“You see today where somebody comes from the TETFund and says, ‘I have a project for you, and I am going to be the contractor. We want an open project.“Every university council should be allowed to run their projects with the stakeholders involved.”
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