The House of Representatives Committee on University Education on Saturday expressed concern over dilapidated infrastructure in universities across the South-East.
The lawmakers’ concern followed their oversight visit to federal universities in the region.
Some of the universities visited by the committee include the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nnamdi Azikwe University Awka, and Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo
Others are the Federal University of Allied Health Science and the Umahi Federal University of Health Science, Uburu, Ebonyi State.
The Chairman of the committee, Abubakar Fulata, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja urged universities to renovate and maintain the structures on ground instead of building new ones.
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He said most of the universities the committee visited did not comply with the federal character principles.
The lawmaker described the development as a gross violation of the constitution
He said: “The fact that a university is located in a certain location in the state does not mean a certain ethnic group or people from that location should dominate it.”
Fulata frowned at the inconsistencies and discrepancies observed in the documents submitted by some of the universities.
He also queried the non-compliance to the principles of federal character principles noticed in their staff’s nominal roll.
The chairman, therefore, tasked the management of the universities to make the necessary amendments.
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