AAU Teachers Lament Over Salary Arrears For Two Months








AAU Teachers Lament Over Salary Arrears For Two Months

Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin
 






Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State may soon return to the bad old days of agitation and disputes, following the refusal of the authorities to pay the salaries of the teachers and other staff of the state owned institution for two months running.

A close source confided that the workers at the school may soon be forced to down tool if the salary issue is not resolved in earnest by the authorities.

According to a reports from the tertiary institution indicated that apart from varying months of arears of salary (3,5,7,8 and 22) owed the staff of the institution, the salary for the months of September and October, 2023 have not been paid even in the face of creeping hardship occasioned by fuel subsidy removal. 

Also, investigations revealed that while workers of the institution are groaning under severe hardship of non-payment of salary, members of the University's Special Intervention Team (SIT) are busy paying themselves bogus sums under the guise of sitting and traveling allowances. 

It was gathered that only last week the bank accounts of some divisions of the University, including Entrepreneurship (ENT) and General Studies (GST), were depleted for the payment of various allowances to members of SIT running into millions of Naira.

The source said who pleaded anonymity added: "The SIT has continued the looting of the meagre resources of the university that should be used to pay salaries and run the university even when their tenure has since expired.

"It is imminent that the institution may be facing another round of agitation and crisis given that workers might be forced to down tool if the salary crisis is not resolved in earnest."

The Head of Corporate Communications, Otunba Mike Aladenika said that the school should not be singled out for lashing, noted that teachers at federal institutions are still being owed.

Otunba's explained that the bulk of the money being owed teachers is from the fall out of the last year nationwide strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), noting that only recently, teachers of federal universities refused President Bola Tinubu's offer to pay them four months arrears.

Aladenika said: "Even the federal government is owing. You'll recall that ASUU refused the recent offer by President Tinubu to pay the teachers four out of the eighth months arrears being owed them as a result of last year nationwide strike action."











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