Fresh crises loom at OOU, MAPOLY over unpaid salaries

The development came, even as the OOU chapter of ASUU disclosed that it had dragged the institution’s management to court over the recent sack of some of its members by the new governing council. At the OOU, Oodua Trust findings revealed that some academic and non-academic staff members had not been paid their salaries since […]

The development came, even as the OOU chapter of ASUU disclosed that it had dragged the institution’s management to court over the recent sack of some of its members by the new governing council.

At the OOU, Oodua Trust findings revealed that some academic and non-academic staff members had not been paid their salaries since August, a development that had brought  low morale in the services of the affected workers. It was alleged that the management was applying the “no work no pay” rule to those who had joined in the strikes embarked upon by ASUU, NASU and SSANU.

When Oodua Trust visited the Ago Iwoye permanent campus of the university last week, checks indicated that about four months salaries had not been paid. “Despite the release of the state government’s counterpart fund for the periods, we cannot say specifically, but we are hearing that the management wants to apply the no work, no pay rule,” a staff hinted.

The chairman of the local branch of ASUU, Dr Adesola Nasir told Oodua Trust that, the implementation of such rule would be contrary to the agreement reached with the federal government “that no member will be punished in whatever form for the strike action,” he said. He pointed out that the problem at the university was purely “political”.

The chairman explained that the union was still at loss as “to why the salaries for the months of August, September and October had not been paid. The ones of June and July were only paid at about 70 per cent of the amount and nobody is talking about the remaining 30 per cent. We are still at loss, but definitely it could not have been because of the strike, because that would be against the agreement reached with government in Abuja.”