FUOYE Tasks FG On Varsity Workers’ Withheld Salaries

The management of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Ekiti State has appealed to the federal government to pay the outstanding four months’ salaries owed to all staff of federal universities in order to maintain peace on the campuses.

The vice chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, who stated this at a press conference yesterday in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, said such is necessary to preclude avoidable compromise of the already beleaguered academic calendar.

Represented by the university’s deputy vice chancellor (Administration) Prof. Tajudeen Bolanle Opoola regretted that members bof Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) FUOYE chapter have decided to use the recent events with the FUOYE management to prosecute the 7-day national warning strike at the university.

He appealed to all unions involved in the national industrial actions to conduct themselves within the ambit of the law by restricting themselves to the limitations of the directives of their national bodies which are in the public domain.

The SSANU chairman, of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Mr. Temidayo Azeez Aguda, had accused  Fasina of vowing not to allow SSANU members to join NASU, threatening and harassing the FUOYE SSANU chairman, Mr Ben Faleye and equally stopping the check-off dues deduction of the new members of the association among other allegations.

Aguda, under the guise of the warning strike,  had on Monday,  led a protest at the university, which he said was at the instance of  National President of SSANU and the Vice President (Western Zone) instructed National Executive members of Ekiti and Ondo State to immediately occupy FUOYE.