The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday raised an alarm over a plot to sabotage the interest of public universities in the country.

ASUU’s National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, at an event marking the 2024 ASUU’s Heroes Day in Abuja, also accused the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund of working relentlessly to destroy Nigeria’s public education system.

The union lamented the delay in the renegotiation of its 2009 agreement with the Federal Government, noting that despite several Memoranda of Understanding and Memoranda of Action, the ASUU-FGN 2009 Agreement was yet to be renegotiated and finalised.

He regretted that the situation had been further complicated by the enforcement of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System in public universities, even after the Federal Executive Council announced plans to remove the system from tertiary education institutions.

Osodeke also expressed concern that the Federal Government was still unjustly withholding the union’s three and a half months’ salaries, in addition to arrears of wages, promotions, and the Earned Academic Allowance which remained outstanding.