ASUU wants Aregbesola, Ajimobi to resign over salary arrears

Worried over the plight of staff of Ladoke Akintoal University, Ogbomoso, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Benin zone yesterday asked Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state and his counterpart in Oyo to resign over their inability to pay the workers eight months outstanding salaries.
The union said the two visitors (Aregbesola and Abiola Ajimobi) to the university have shied away from their responsibilities and conspired to deny LAUTECH workers their right to wages.
The university is co-owned by both States.
Zonal coordinator, ASUU, Prof Fred Esumen who made the call while briefing journalists on the state of the university in Benin City said: “a worker is entitled to his wages and as such the salary serves as motivation to him.” According to him, “this is not the case in LAUTECH where the two visitors to the university have shied away from their responsibilities and have conspired to deny the workers in that university their right to wages.
“It is therefore our view that what is left for these visitors is to honourably resign for not meeting up with what is expected of their offices,” he said.
Continuing, Esumen decried the total neglect meted to the university, pointing out that “instead of the two governors to come together to resuscitate the institution from total collapse, they have chosen to establish additional universities in their respective states.” “The case of LAUTECH is therefore very pathetic; owned by the two states of Oyo and Osun, yet lacks so much especially at the level of funding,” he stated.
Esumen however called on Nigerians and lovers of education to come to the rescue of the institution, adding that the proliferation of institutions is not the solution to the problem besetting the universities in the country