ASUU Accuses AAU Authorities For Spreading Falsehood















ASUU Accuses AAU Authorities  For Spreading Falsehood 

Iduozee Efe Paul

The Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the AAU authorities for deliberately misinforming the public over the sorry state of affairs at the state owned tertiary institution.

In a joint statement by Dr. Cyril Oziegbe Onogbosele and Dr. William Odion, chairperson and assistant secretary of ASUU, AAU, Ekpoma respectively, the union said it was not surprised by the simplistic response of the university administration to fundamental issues raised by the lecturers at the school.

The Onogbosele and Odion expressed disappointment over the embellished rhetoric reaction from the authorities, stylishly designed to evade serious matters of assault on university autonomy; administrative high handedness; impunity; pauperization and victimization of staff;  and alleged fraudulent graduation of over 30  students purportedly based overseas.

More so, the unionists also slammed the authorities for failing to address serious reputational issues bordering on large-scale certificate and academic transcript racketeering; alleged tax invasion by staff, amounting to over N2 billion and the illegality of all activities by the Special Intervention Team (SIT) as a result of tenure expiration since November 2022.




They added: "It is disheartening that the university administration is not bordered about the legal implications of its present administrative policies, decisions and activities, including non-procedural appointments/employments being superintendent over by the SIT which will come to nought now or in the future as the union is poised to fight these illegalities till justice is done in the university."


Onogbosele and Odion charged that no cogent reasons have been given so far for the stoppage of the salaries of some academic staff, selective payment of salaries, non-payment of outstanding/withheld salaries, stoppage of responsibility allowance (for office-holders), stoppage of annual salary increments, stoppage of payment of excess workload arrears, non-issuance of payslips and bastardization of the statutory salary structure in the tertiary institution.

The chairperson and the scribe queried: "What about the issue of outstanding salaries/withheld salaries of staff over ASUU’s national strike action between 14th February, 2022 and 16th October, 2022 that has remained unresolved in the university even when the Federal Government has started paying up those salaries in Federal Universities?"

The duo insisted that it was embarrassing for the university administration to deny owing salaries even when they recently collated the names of staff they have deliberately victimized and denied salaries since January 2022.

The unionists accused authorities of the institution of descending into the arena of full blown propaganda and patent lies by denying the several deaths of academic staff recorded in the university in recent times as a result of wicked denial of salaries of staff and its slavish policies.


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