The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has appealed to the Federal Government not to systemically phase out the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) which has transformed tertiary educational institutions in Nigeria in the last three decades.
ASUU warned that suffocating the funding source of TETFund to run the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) would destroy public education in the country.
ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke in a televised interview today said “The only source of funding is from TETFund, so when you destroy it, you have destroyed public universities,”
He alleged that some members of the ruling class “want to destroy public universities and ensure that the children of the poor remain slaves”.
The ASUU president who faulted the Tax Bills introduced by the President Bola Tinubu administration further said that stakeholders were not consulted within the educational sector before the bills were sent to the National Assembly.
