With the apparent stance of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on
non resumption until the agreement between them and the Federal
government has been honored, the Federal Government in a re-conciliatory
move removed the ultimatum earlier placed on lecturers to resume
otherwise their appointments would be terminated.
FG has also provided
proof of disbursement of N200billion to the educational trust account
which was one of the criteria earlier given by lecturers for resumption.
Addressing newsmen yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, showed a letter with
reference number GVD/DGO/GEN/MP/05/151 which was addressed to the
Auditor-General of the Federation and titled: “Confirmation of the Execution of your
Mandate for the Credit of Account No… Revitalization of Universities
Infrastructure Account.”
The letter stated: “I write to confirm the execution of
the following mandates by the Central Bank of Nigeria for funding of the
above mentioned account as follows:
Mandate FD/LP2013/40/1/30/DF – 129,300,000,000.00
Mandate FD/F124/Vol XII/120/DF – 20,700,000,000.00
Mandate FD/LP2013/40/1/DF – 50,000,000,000.00
“I
wish to further confirm that the available balance in the
aforementioned account is N200,000,000,000.00 (Two Hundred Billion Naira
Only). Please, accept the assurances of my best regards.”
As
regards cancellation of the ultimatum, Doyin Okupe said about 90% of the
lecturers had resumed nationwide so the talk of deadline resumption has
dropped.
