Governor Mohammed Inuwa of Gombe State has said government alone cannot fund universities, suggesting that other stakeholders like parents should support the schools, IgbereTV reports
The governor made the comment on Friday, hours after ASUU suspended its eight-month industrial in which the lecturers demanded better funding of universities and other issues.
“Strike by ASUU has been a recurrent one and even now I have a belief that it is going to be a temporally one, we need to find a permanent solution to it,” he said.
“I will recommend that we look inwards and see that we empower people enough to be part of stakeholders, parents, associations, communities and whatever should be involved in managing these universities by way of support because Federal Government alone cannot support the Nigerian universities, reliance on the Federal Government for the recourses to run the universities at this point in time is something that we have to look into deeper.”
He accused previous governments of signing agreements “carelessly” with the varsity teachers, a development he says has been aggravated by the current financial crisis in Nigeria.
