The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed worry over the problem of under-funding of public universities in the country, noting that the situation is very alarming in many state-owned universities.

President of the union, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said many state governments like the Federal Government had failed to fully implement the 2006 agreement in which they all participated.

He particularly lamented that state governments had been neglecting universities that they established while some state governors, according to him were going ahead to establish new ones while those brought to life by their predecessors were neglected to rot and die.

According to him, Governors Segun Mimiko of Ondo and Adams Oshiomhole of Edo states have established two new state universities in their respective states while they have failed to fund existing ones.

He said the state governors have turned establishing universities to constituency projects, which they use to boast even without adequate funding. “Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye and Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, have not received subventions from their owner governments for upward of nine months.