The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has slammed governors for establishing state universities they cannot fund, alleging that most governors duplicate universities in their states to get a piece of the pie that is the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).
He said though TETFUND is supposed to be an intervention fund for public universities, politicians and civil servants have seen it as a cash cow to be milked dry through shady procurement processes and contract fraud.
The ASUU president said a structure should be created to carry stakeholders along in the process of how the money is allocated and spent in an open and transparent manner.
Professor Osodeke added that the stakeholders should include the university community; lecturers, student groups to put an end “to the case.
