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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Bauchi zone has noted that it would reject students’ loans, insisting that what students need are grants and not loans.
ASUU Bauchi branch stated that a grant will be well utilized for their education rather than a loan that they will pay back.
This was disclosed on Saturday by Associate Professor Lazarus Maigoro, the Bauchi zonal coordinator of ASUU.
According to Maigoro, the Bauchi zone of ASUU was working on getting the statistics of students who may likely drop out of school at the end of the current session.
He said this was with the hope of making the government review its decision on the issue of the loans and replace it with grants.
He said, “The question is: Who will pay the loan? What is the fate of those who cannot access it?
“The psychological trauma the students will be subjected to due to the loan while still in their studies will affect their performances negatively.
“The thought that they would graduate with a loan of N4million and above without the capacity to pay back is another psychological torture on them.”
Earlier in his welcome remarks, the ATBU branch chairperson, Comrade Ibrahim Inuwa, pledged that ASUU would continue to act as a socially responsible union by fighting for the collective interest of quality tertiary education.