ASUU to clash with Fashola over School fees

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."