CBN Confirms Universities N200b Account, As Okupe Speaks About ‘Honourable Path’ For ASUU . The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has confi...
CBN Confirms Universities N200b Account, As Okupe
Speaks About ‘Honourable Path’ For ASUU.
Speaks About ‘Honourable Path’ For ASUU.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
has confirmed that a sum of N200 billion agreed with the Academic Staff Union
of Universities at a meeting
with President Goodluck Jonathan on November 5 has been fully paid into a
Revitalization of Universities Infrastructure Account.
The Senior Special Assistant to the
President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, disclosed this today in Abuja,
where he made the CBN letter available to newsmen. Okupe did not, however,
address the question of the signed statement being demanded by ASUU outlining the terms of their agreement.
While giving further evidence that
the N200bn had been paid, Okupe released a copy of the letter written by the
Deputy Governor of CBN, Mr. Tunde Lemo, to the Accountant General of the
Federation, to journalists.
The letter, with reference
GVD/DGO/GEN/MPA/05/151 and dated December 10, 2013, reads in part,
“Confirmation of the execution of your mandates for the credit of account No:
00200xx522, Revitalisation of Universities Infrastructure Account.
“I write to confirm the execution of
the following mandates by the CBN for funding of the above mentioned account as
follows:
1. Mandate FDL/LP201340/1/30/DF: N129,300,000,000:00
2. Mandate FD/FA/124/Vol X11/120/1DF: N20,700,000,000:00
3. Mandate FD/LP2013/40/1/DF :N50,000,000,000:00
1. Mandate FDL/LP201340/1/30/DF: N129,300,000,000:00
2. Mandate FD/FA/124/Vol X11/120/1DF: N20,700,000,000:00
3. Mandate FD/LP2013/40/1/DF :N50,000,000,000:00
“I wish to further confirm that the
available balance in the aforementioned account is N200bn (two hundred billion
naira) only.
“Please accept the assurances of my
best regards.”
With this, Okupe said there was no need for the continuation of the strike.
With this, Okupe said there was no need for the continuation of the strike.
He said the President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge, had assured last Thursday
that if there was proof of payment of the sum, the strike would be called off
immediately.
Okupe said, “I hereby show the proof
of payment to all Nigerians, not only to ASUU and to let the people know that when we say
that this administration has no credibility issue, we mean it.
“We have kept our cool; we have
taken a lot of insults and all that and things that were disparaging but we are
glad to show this proof that this has been done as we said.”
Source- PUNCH.
