ASUU berates LAUTECH council chairman over salaries

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has berated the chairman, governing council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, (LAUTECH), Prof.
Dapo Afolabi, over his recent claim that staff of the institution have been receiving their salaries promptly.
ASUU in a statement signed by its Ibadan zonal coordinator, Dr.
Ade Adejumo, said it was painful that Afolabi was allowing himself to be used as a conduit for public misinformation.
The union said, contrary to Afolabi’s claim, staff of the institution are still being owed 10-month salary arrears.
“The union is in receipt of a shocking statement credited to the chairman, LAUTECH governing council as a fallout of the last warning strike and public protest staged by our colleagues in that university.
“The statement is to the effect that the workers are not being owed any money and that the government has been fulfilling their obligation to LAUTECH.
“The Ibadan zone of ASUU is compelled to respond to this statement to put the record straight.
We call on the public to disregard this lie as the facts are there that LAUTECH staff are being owed 10-month salary arrears, promotion arrears, EAA and others.
This fact has been severally acknowledged by the council chairman himself.
“We want to make it clear that we are academics and not politicians, therefore, the insinuation that ASUU is being used by politicians is a futile attempt to cast us in bad light.
If the stock in trade of politicians is lying to the public, ASUU begs not to be drawn into the murky waters of their dirty politics.
Adejumo lamented that it was painful that Prof Afolabi, a seasoned academic, was allowing himself to be used as a conduit of public misinformation to launder the image of governments that have proved irresponsible in the discharge of their statutory responsibilities to a public university like LAUTECH, warning that ASUU would issue a comprehensive report on this latest assault on LAUTECH.

 

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