The call is contained in a motion sponsored by the only female federal legislator from Osun State.
The House of Representatives at plenary unanimously adopted the motion sponsored by Hon Oluga to that effect and directed the Federal government to immediately lift the ban on employment in federal universities across the country.
Adopting the motion, the House also mandated its Committee on Tertiary Education and Services to ascertain the number of internal vacancies existing in all Federal Government Universities with a view to monitoring their replacements in order to curb inefficiency and waste in the system.
Leading the debate, the lawmaker said recent oversight of Federal Universities in Nigeria revealed that the institutions had avalanche of internal vacancies for both academic and non–academic positions, but because of the ban on recruitment, the positions were filled.
This according to Mrs Oluga, is hampering smooth academic programmes in the Universities.
She said the amount appropriated in the national budget for personnel expenditure in the Universities could accommodate the internal vacancies, hence the Universities should be allowed to fill the vacancies, especially where the amounts appropriated for capital expenditure could offset the attendant personnel costs
The Lawmaker, argued that even though the conditions leading to the ban on employment in the institutions still exist, a lot of vacancies have been created as a result of retirement and death as well as resignation in search of greener pastures.
Mrs Oluga said the vacancies created by the exit should be filled through replacement and not an outright fresh employment, adding that doing so will enhance teaching and learning and reduce the burden on those left in the institutions.
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