President Goodluck Jonathan Friday said the nine newly established Federal Universities have not taken off due to the delay in the payment of take-off grants and dearth of infrastructure needed by the institutions.
Jonathan said this in Otuoke, his home in Bayelsa State while fielding questions from newsmen after a meeting with the people of Otuoke who had complained about the delay in the take off of the university sited in their community.
The people, led by the traditional ruler of the community had complained to the President in his native Ogbia language, asking to know why the institution had not taken off as scheduled.
But the President who arrived in the state at about 2pm and proceeded to the site of the Federal University in Otueke where he inspected the on-going three faculty buildings, houses for the senior officials of the university, the conference centre and class room blocks before going for the meeting said the work so far going on at the site of the university are by community effort.
"We have studied everything and it is our directive that not all the new universities will start academic work this year. We would not want them to admit students where we don't have infrastructure. There are funds to be released for the university to start and there is also the issue of land acquisition and the issuance of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report, which the Vice Chancellor also complained about today"
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