Taraba Varsity Students Protest Non-payment Of Lecturers’ Salaries

Students of Taraba State University (TSU) on Monday protested the non-payment of the salaries of school’s lecturers which led to a strike and stoppage of the school’s examination.

The students who resumed the examination on Monday were told to return to their homes following the strike embarked upon by the lecturers.

LEADERSHIP gathered that students who came for their examinations in the early hours of Monday became angry with the development and started burning tyres on the federal highway from Jalingo to Bali.

Some of the students who spoke to LEADERSHIP lamented that they had been at home for almost a year and could not afford to return because of another strike due to the non-payment of their lecturers by the state government.

The students were also seen along Hamaruwa/Barde way in the heart of Jalingo, Taraba state capital destroying Billboards with political inscriptions particularly that of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.

“When we resumed from the last eight months strike, we renewed our accommodation which we did not use, we could not write our exams waiting for after festivals, now they have started another strike again, do we come to this school for strikes or to learn? This time, we are not going back home until the matter is resolved so that we can further our education.

The staff of the institution last week protested round the school over non-payment of their salaries and threatened that if they were not paid, there would be no examination.

The university staff lead by Mr. Solomon Ishaya Audu, the NASU chairman and Bitrus Joseph Ajibauka, the SSANU chairman in their protest letter presented to the vice chancellor Professor Sunday Bako demanded the payment of the outstanding salaries of March and June 2022; payment of the outstanding responsibility and hazard allowances for September 2021; payment of the 75 percent outstanding third-party deductions of October 2021.

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