The outgoing vice chancellor of the Ekiti State University in Ado-Ekiti (EKSU), Prof. Edward Olanipekun, Wednesday urged the federal government to give room for constant interface with the labour unions as lasting solution to the incessant industrial action being embarked upon, especially by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Olanipekun, who had been in the saddle for sixty months as vice chancellor of EKSU, said he offered the suggestion to be embraced by the federal government to serve as a way out of strike.
The professor of Industrial Chemistry gave the advice in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital at a press conference marking the end of his tenure of office.
He said: “The only way out of ASUU strike is for government to embrace dialogue. And I would continue to implore the government to be having constant interface with the unions from time to time.”
He said his saddest day in office was when ASUU was proscribed.
He added that the so-called ‘amputated’ salary had gone forever and that the university being the first institution that had been paying the new salary scale had paid up to the month of June this year. He however stated that four months subvention from the state government is still being expected.
