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By Funmilayo Adeyemi<\/p>\n
Abuja<\/p>\n
The Federal Government says it has no plan to sell any of the Federal Unity Colleges, describing such reports as misinformation.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, stated this on Wednesday while addressing newsmen in Abuja, amid the ongoing dispute over the proposed management arrangement for King\u2019s College, Lagos.<\/p>\n
Alausa said the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, retained its position that none of the Unity Colleges would be sold.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me be unequivocal, Federal Government is not selling any Unity College.<\/p>\n
\u201cFederal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, does not have the intention to sell any Unity College, and we will not sell any Unity College.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the government position, and go and write it down and hold on to that, we are not selling the government\u2019s institutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The minister said the government had engaged with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other unions on the issues surrounding the schools.<\/p>\n
According to him, the government has reached a six-point agreement with the TUC leadership, after which a communiqu\u00e9 was issued calling on workers to return to work.<\/p>\n
He, however, alleged that another faction of the unions had continued with protests in spite the engagement with the TUC.<\/p>\n
Alausa said the government had invited the faction for a meeting, subject to the condition that ministry workers should return to their offices and the ministry gates should not be blocked.<\/p>\n
He said the conditions were necessary to ensure the safety of officials and maintain law and order.<\/p>\n
The minister condemned alleged harassment of staff, destruction of property and blocking of ministry gates, saying peaceful demonstrations were permitted within the law.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not tolerate that as a government. We\u2019ve given them all the room and scope to do their protest within the ambit of the law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On King\u2019s College, Alausa said the institution was originally established to train future leaders and had produced prominent Nigerians.<\/p>\n
He said the proposed arrangement involving the King\u2019s College Old Boys Association (KCOBA) was intended to address infrastructure and management challenges, rather than transfer ownership of the institution.<\/p>\n
Alausa said the Federal Government was facing a significant infrastructure deficit across the Unity Colleges, noting that available resources were insufficient to meet all the schools\u2019 needs simultaneously.<\/p>\n
He urged journalists to visit the schools and independently assess their condition.<\/p>\n
The minister said government would continue to engage the unions on the matter, stressing that the objective was to improve the standard of the schools.<\/p>\n
He also said President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration had invested substantially in infrastructure but acknowledged that the needs across the education sector remained extensive.<\/p>\n
He said other sectors, including health, security and general infrastructure, were also competing for government resources.<\/p>\n
The minister reiterated that the government would continue to seek solutions to the challenges confronting the Unity Colleges without selling the institutions. (NAN)<\/p>\n
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