The presidential aide addressed the media on Wednesday.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public
Affairs, Doyin Okupe, has provided evidence that the
Federal Government has opened an account for public
universities at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
The opening of the account and disbursement of N200
billion to the universities within two weeks was one of the
demands made by ASUU before they would call off the five months old strike.
ASUU president, Nasir Fagge, had stated in an interview
with Channels TV that the opening of the account and the
disbursement of the money to the Universities would make the lecturers call off the strike.
“Once that is done, and the committee that is supposed to disburse the funds starts working, our members will have no reason not to suspend the strike action,” he said.
Mr. Fagge had also addressed a press conference on
Monday in which he stated that a central monitoring
committee should be established to monitor the usage of
the revitalisation fund and should submit quarterly reports to the Minister of Education.
Speaking to journalists in his office on Wednesday, Mr.
Okupe showed reporters evidence of correspondences
between the office of the Accountant General of the
Federation, AGF, and the Central Bank.
The documents showed that on November 13, the AGF
authorized the banking and payment system department
of the Central Bank of Nigeria via a letter with reference
number FD/OAGF/220/ADC/1/4DF to open a “revitalization
of Universities Infrastructural Account” with the CBN.
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