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Payment Of Full Salaries: Oyo Tertiary Institutions’ Staff Beg Tinubu, Alaafin To Prevail On Ajimobi

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Efforts by academic staff unions of tertiary institutions in Oyo state to get Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the state reverse his administration’s decision of paying only 25 percent of wage bills of state-owned institutions of learning have continued to meet brick-wall.

Following the economic crisis in the country, the Ajimobi-led administration last year came out with the policy of reducing the monthly subvention to all state-owned tertiary institutions by 25 percent, and this has consequently led to salary crises in all the said institutions.

Workers in some of the institutions including: The Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igbo-Ora; The Oyo State College of Education, Lanlate; and The Oyo State College of Education, Oyo, have continued to receive only 25 percent of their monthly salary.

Management teams in other state-owned institutions including: The Ibadan Polytechnic, Ibadan; The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki; and the Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa, resorted to mopping up four months subventions to pay just a month’s salary, and are currently owing their workers several months salary arrears.

PMParrotng gathered that to express their displeasure over this development, staff unions in Igbo-Ora, Lanlate and Oyo have  embarked of strike actions, but their industrial actions have not yielded the desired results.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic chapter recently organized a solemn assembly, and a three-day fasting and prayer programme to register their displeasure over the development and to seek a divine solution to the crisis.

A source informed  that the unions have also taken the matter to the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, asking the duo to prevail on Governor Ajimobi to rescind his decision.

The source, however, added that for about five months now, the academic staff unions are yet to get any positive feedback from both the paramount traditional ruler and the APC National Leader.

Packaged by Alice Egbedele

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