Ekiti State government has urged the State University branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to partner with the University Authorities to stop the leakages in the university finances and ensure more prudence in the management of its Internally Generated Revenue.
In a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor of Ekiti State on Tertiary Education, Dr Sikiru Eniola, on Monday, the union was also urged to continue to partner with Government in urgently exploring alternate and additional sources to the funding of tertiary education in the state.
Eniola was responding to the allegation of the union about lack of attention to the university by the Governor Kayode Fayemi’s administration. He said contrary to the allegation, the state government had pragmatically addressed all developmental issues in all the tertiary institutions in the state and paid special attention to the Ekiti State University.
According to him, subventions are released regularly while salaries are being paid regularly. He added that the massive shortfalls created by the immediate past administration were also being addressed within available resources.
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He said, “The State Government has also supported the University in the successful accreditation of all its courses by the NUC and other regulatory bodies.
“While we commend the hard work of the academic staff and the contributions of other members of staff of the university to the accreditation exercises, we make bold to say that the Fayemi administration fully understand and has accommodated the peculiarities of the university system.
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“The great efforts of the State Government in restoring administrative stability, regular monthly subventions and by extension regular salaries, the accreditation of the College of Medicine and the restoration of hope for Medical Students, the induction of the graduates of the College of Medicine, the full accreditation of Law and other courses across all Faculties should not be glossed over by ASUU EKSU in its understandable zeal for more funding for the University.
“Furthermore, ASUU EKSU acted in violation of its own ethos by casting needless aspersions at the personality of Dr Fayemi on the establishment of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Isan Ekiti. It is not true that the College is being funded at the expense of other tertiary institutions in Ekiti State.
“It is assumed that academics should make statements that are based on facts and not mere propaganda. Ekiti State is almost the only State without a Polytechnic in Nigeria.
“In the commitment of the Fayemi Administration to promote the Agro economy, Entrepreneurship and simultaneously produce the middle level manpower required to teach students at all the massively renovated Technical Colleges across Ekiti State, the establishment of the College became absolutely necessary.
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“In addition, the Ekiti State University will also have a feed from the products of the College to promote its own contributions to the training of high level manpower for the Agricultural and Technological advancements of Ekiti State and the global world in general.”
He however said the state government acknowledged the good intentions of ASUU EKSU and in accordance with the spirit and letters of their engagements, government would continue to review the funding situation of the university and the other Tertiary Institutions in the state.
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