Following the failure of both Oyo and Osun State governments to pay salaries of the academic staff of Universities
of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, running into 13 months, the union has
commenced an indefinite strike.
According to a letter signed by Dr. Oyeleke O.O and Dr. Olaniran O.A (Chairman and Secretary respectively) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, LAUTECH chapter, made available to New Telegraph Sunday, the union had met on July 9, 2015 and made various observations on the negative turn of
events in the Univesity, “which posterity will not forgive us if we fail to point out”.
Sequel to this, the union said that it had
commenced indefinite strike since Friday, July 20, 2015 having observed that “the two owner states have abdicated their avowed responsibility by not providing the expected funding for the university whether recurrent or capital.
“In the past five years, only capital projects in the university are those got from TETFUND and Special Intervention Funds (all coming from persistent ASUU
struggles);
“(ii) Payment of salaries through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is not a substitute to the normal and expected subvention
that should come from owner states;
“(iii) Between the two states (Oyo and Osun), a lumpsome amount of 13 months salaries have not been given to the university, which is now left with using IGR to pay the workers. How sustainable this will be is the question agitating
the minds of workers in the university drawn majorly from the two states?”.
Noting that a situation where the university administration uses the
Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for salary payment was unacceptable and unsustainable, the union said that “it portends a serious danger to the university.
“The trend of owning a university without the readiness to pay salaries is a negation of the existence of education as a social service to the people”.
of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, running into 13 months, the union has
commenced an indefinite strike.
According to a letter signed by Dr. Oyeleke O.O and Dr. Olaniran O.A (Chairman and Secretary respectively) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, LAUTECH chapter, made available to New Telegraph Sunday, the union had met on July 9, 2015 and made various observations on the negative turn of
events in the Univesity, “which posterity will not forgive us if we fail to point out”.
Sequel to this, the union said that it had
commenced indefinite strike since Friday, July 20, 2015 having observed that “the two owner states have abdicated their avowed responsibility by not providing the expected funding for the university whether recurrent or capital.
“In the past five years, only capital projects in the university are those got from TETFUND and Special Intervention Funds (all coming from persistent ASUU
struggles);
“(ii) Payment of salaries through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is not a substitute to the normal and expected subvention
that should come from owner states;
“(iii) Between the two states (Oyo and Osun), a lumpsome amount of 13 months salaries have not been given to the university, which is now left with using IGR to pay the workers. How sustainable this will be is the question agitating
the minds of workers in the university drawn majorly from the two states?”.
Noting that a situation where the university administration uses the
Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) for salary payment was unacceptable and unsustainable, the union said that “it portends a serious danger to the university.
“The trend of owning a university without the readiness to pay salaries is a negation of the existence of education as a social service to the people”.
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