AGGRIEVED workers of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso yesterday began an indefinite strike following the failure of both Oyo and Osun State governments to pay their salaries running to 13 months.
The workers, under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU) LAUTECH chapter, in a letter by their Chairman and Secretary respectively, Dr. Oyeleke O. O. and Dr. Olaniran O. A. said various efforts by the body to make the management see reason have failed.
Subsequently, the union resolved to go on strike while accusing the two owner-states of abdicating their responsibility by not providing the expected funding for the university whether recurrent or capital.
“ In the past five years, the only capital projects in the university were those got from TETFUND and special intervention funds. Payment of salaries through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is not a substitute to the normal and expected subvention that should come from owner states.
“ Between the two states (Oyo and Osun), a lumpsome amount of 13 months salaries have not been given to the university, which is now left with using IGR to pay workers. How sustainable this will be, is the question agitating the minds of workers in the university drawn majorly from the two states.”
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