Crisis brews in Ekiti varsity over unpaid allowances, subvention

Members of the Senate of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, were yesterday locked out of their chambers by protesting employees of the institution over irreconcilable differences.
The unions that carried out the protest were the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Nigerian Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT).
According to a top Senate member, who craved anonymity, the protesters targeted top officials of the institution, including the Vice Chancellor, Prof Oladipo Aina, his deputies and the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities ,EKSU chapter, Prof Olufayo Olu-Olu, among other high ranking members of the management.
This was coming barely 24 hours after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Kola Oluwawole, accused the Governing Council of engaging in a N2 billion contract scam.
It was gathered that the unions had been at loggerheads with high ranking officials of the university in the last few weeks, over alleged non-payment of their check-off dues and other allowances approved for their members in federal institutions.
Following alleged recalcitrant posture of the institution’s management to hearken to their demands, the workers, led by the local NASU chairman, had gathered on the campus on Wednesday at about 7a.m., where critical decisions, including preventing the senate members from entering the chambers for their meeting, were taken.

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