Academic and non-academic activities were paralyzed on Monday at the Ekiti State University, (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti, as the workers protested against non-payment of six-month subventions, salary arrears as well as cooperative deductions among others.
The angry staff prevented vehicular
and human movement in and out of the institution as they ensured that all gates to the campus were under lock and key.
Vehicles were parked outside as many of the staff and students roamed about in front of the school gate.
The unions who participated in the protest include the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) National Association of Area Technologists (NAT) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), among others.
According to them, contrary to the government’s view that the institution’s recent investment in some ventures to shore up its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), has made it capable of taking care of paying salary, emoluments, and remuneration, all is not well, as the management has only been able to pay a paltry 20% of the staff’s salary arrears since March this year.
They maintained that the management had failed to live up to its responsibilities due to the failure of the state government to pay subventions since January this year.
Governor Ayodele Fayose had during its convocation last month praised the management of the institution for raising the bar of its IGR to cater for its salaries and allowances, but the protesting workers said the governor might have been misinformed by the school management as they have been receiving 20 percent of their net pay since January this year.
Speaking about the plight of the workers, SSANU chairman, Mr.
Kolapo Olatunde, said: “the last subvention the State Government released the to the university was in December, last year.
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