By Sumayyah Auwal Ishaq
The management of the Kaduna State University ( KASU) on Friday condemned a statement attributed to the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who has described state-owned universities as quacks.
The university’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Adamu Nuhu Bargo, in a statement on Friday, said, “ASUU, represented by the unguarded vituperations of its chosen President, is not actually struggling for a better educational system in Nigeria but for personal and irresponsible aggrandisement”.
Mr Bargo further said that “for the benefit of hindsight, KASU is a new generation University and the second most-sought State-Owned University as well as the fastest growing in Nigeria”.
“The general public may wish to note as follows:
1. KASU is recognised by NUC as a standard University.
2. KASU has some of the best brains that are competing favourably with their counterparts around the globe. The world’s No 4 best polymer chemist is in KASU.
3. Lecturers in KASU have attracted grants both locally and internationally and are highly rated.
4. KASU graduates are rated among the best in the world and enjoy scholarships from different parts of the country and the globe.
5. KASU has members in ASUU, and it is unfortunate if the ASUU President is saying that they are quacks while enjoying monthly check-off fees from their salaries. Does this not give a good reason for every reasonable academic staff in the University to pull off from the Union for this labelling and stereotyping?”
