Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Jos Branch said during his handing over of the lecture Theatre to the institution that the project cost N63.2m and was contributed over the years by members of the union.
ASUU made this donation to the management of the university in order to address the infrastructural needs of the Institution.
He said:
“One of the reasons why our union is on strike today is due to lack of adequate infrastructures for the purpose of quality teaching and learning.”
“We decided to embark on this project also because government has not lived up to its responsibility of funding education. The situation is so bad that it is lecturers in the university who are erroneously perceived as strike mongers and very recalcitrant people that are now using their salaries to build classrooms to assist the government and students while the Nigerian public is keeping quiet.”
However, Mr Biodun Ogunyemi (ASUU National President) also said:
““UniJos has today added a fresh perspective to addressing the infrastructural deficit on our campuses that would go down in history as unequalled.”
“We cannot pretend that we have all it takes to solve the problem. Our members are stressed and distressed.”
“Our salary structure has been stagnated for 11 years. And the forceful migration to discredited Integrated Payroll and Personal information system (IPPIS), has further distorted and devalued the take-home pay of our members.”
However, the Vice Chancellor of the University thanked and congratulated ASUU for always playing a major role in Public Universities and also promised to use the facility properly.
