The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH chapter has threatened industrial crisis should the workers’ arrears of salaries not be paid by the two owner-states.
The union asked Governors Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola to pay the outstanding 13-months salaries owed workers of the Institution without further delay.
The academic union claimed that staff of the institution are finding it difficult to survive while nobody is willing to loan money to them to meet their basic needs.
The Chairman of ASUU, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Dr Oyebamiji Oyegoke said while speaking to newsmen in Ibadan that the institution workers are facing untold hardship due to non payment of their 13-months salaries.
The union boss said the call became imperative in view of the bail-out being granted to states by President Mohammadu Buhari which Oyo State is a beneficiary.
While calling for judicious utilization of the funds to boost the life chances of the workers, Dr Oyegoke demanded regular payment of salary from monthly governmental subventions and not from the internally generated revenue which is supposed to be used for other welfare and development projects.
He stated that the “two owner states jointly owe the university workers 13-month salaries forcing the university to keep the system running via financial interventions.”
While lamenting that there has been no visible projects on the campus in the last five years, Dr Oyebamiji said the projects visible on the campus are products of ASUU struggles and TETFUND interventions.
Warning of imminent industrial disharmony between the workers and the government’s of the two owner-states, ASUU stressed that the two governors have forgotten their promise to “spend the necessary monies on LAUTECH to turn it into a model university among its peers.”
According to ASUU, the Oyo and Osun governments have abdicated their responsibilities of providing funding as expected for the university whether capital or recurrent.
ASUU called for a sustained response towards capital projects in the university while asking for definite payment of owed salaries as well as the approval of payment of Academic Earned Allowances to the deserving workers.
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