The non-academic staff of the University of Ekiti State (EKSU) have staged a peaceful protested for non-payment of three-month outstanding salaries.
The workers who blocked the entrance to the office of the vice chancellor claimed that the school management refused to pay their salaries, which made workers at the university languish in poverty.
Chairman of the EKSU chapter of NASU, Mr. Sunday Olajutemu, said that the protest became necessary after the governor made a clarification during the maiden edition of Meet Your Governor that the government is not owning the state tertiary institution as a subvention rather than the inherited outstanding August 2018 subvention.
The protesters said that the school management claimed that the government is still subscribing to them, which caused a delay in the salaries of the workers.
Other union leaders, Mrs. Mary Adeosun and Mr. Túndé, claimed that they have given the school management 48 hours to pay their salaries or face industrial action.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academics, Prof. Joseph Babatola, said that the school management was working to ensure that the welfare of the workers was taken care of.
He assured that the workers would in any moment receive their November salaries; he, however, said that the workers were owned for three months rather than the claim of four months.
