The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso
(LAUTECH) chapter on Monday, warned that the institution was going into
extinction due to infrastructural decay.
The union said it was disturbed
by the under-funding of the institution by its owners: Oyo and Osun states.
ASUU said despite its unrelenting
efforts to ensure that abnormalities in the institution were addressed by the
two states, the situation was getting worse, adding that the institution’s best
lecturers were daily moving to other institutions where their worth would be
appreciated.
The union, in a statement jointly
signed by its chairman, Comrade Biodun Olaniyan and secretary, Comrade Toyin
Abegunrin, said Osun and Oyo state governments should be blamed for whatever
happens to the institution.
The duo, in the statement, said,
“Recall that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) LAUTECH branch in
the press statement of the 26th July, 2018 warned about the impending crises in
the university due to government’s refusal to fund the University as part of
their cardinal responsibilities to the Nigerian masses.
“This has led to the accumulation
of unpaid salaries. Prompt payment of salaries which is a major motivating
ingredient of productivity has become a mirage in our erstwhile glorious and
exemplary state university which in the past, was the glory of Oyo and Osun
states.
“Presently, suffering and
uncertainty of survival means have become the abiding companions of staff
members. After the alarm raised in the said release by the union, one would
expect that a sensitive government would have responded positively towards
averting the looming crises.
“However to our dismay, nothing
was said or done on the release. It is unfortunate that about eight months
after the suspension of strike in the university, all the promises of the
University Governing Council that led to the suspension have not been fulfilled.
It is saddening to report that up till now, the members of staff are being owed
10 months salary, promotion arrears, among other allowances. Salaries are being
paid through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) majorly from school fees.
“It should be recalled that the
union also called on the members of the public to reach out to the Visitors to
do the needful. Up till now, no response of any sort was received.
“Flowing from the litany of
misfortunes foisted on the university by the government, as enumerated above,
our Union is left with no other option than to call out our members once again
to return to the trenches in search of lasting solution to the crises.
“It is painful and unfortunate
that the union is being forced, at this point in time, to resume its suspended
action. Members of the public should therefore blame the government, not ASUU,
for this sad turn of event,” ASUU stated.
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