{"id":16024,"date":"2019-09-27T15:35:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16024"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:35:33","slug":"our-members-are-on-red-alert-ekiti-varsity-asuu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/our-members-are-on-red-alert-ekiti-varsity-asuu","title":{"rendered":"Our members are on \u2018red alert\u2019 \u2014Ekiti varsity ASUU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ekiti_State\"> Ekiti State<\/a> University, Dr Kayode Arogundade, said on Friday that all EKSU-ASUU members have been put on \u2018red alert\u2019 over the nine months\u2019 salaries being owed them and other welfare issues.<\/p>\n<p>Arogundade also said, \u201cIf the university must continue to enjoy the relative peace prevailing at present, then the outrageous and obnoxious tax regime being planned for implementation should be aborted outrightly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ASUU chairman, who spoke at a press briefing in Ado Ekiti, urged Governor Kayode Fayemi to implement the content of the White Paper on the Prof. Bode Asubiojo-led visitation panel, which he said addressed the issues of tax, wage bill and other academic issues in the university.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is now time to say enough of this insensitivity and ill-treatment. All our members have been put on red alert for possible action if the university administration continues to exhibit its cruelty and nonchalant behaviour towards our welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, due to \u201cThe non-payment of salaries running to nine months by EKSU authorities to its very committed and hard-working staff, we have lost some of our staff (members), who found it difficult to finance their treatments in reputable hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arogundade, who accused the university of not showing commitment to staff welfare, said, \u201cThe academic community has become a source of scorn, ridicule and victim of embarrassment from members of the larger society, owing largely to (their) inability to live up to their family expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not understand the logic of government or EKSU administration and its attempt to commence implementation of a prohibitive tax regime, even when they are still owing us various sums of money including salaries and allowances, Excess Work Load and Earned Allowances and four months statutory government\u2019s subventions to the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of fact, what our members are currently paying as tax is way over and above what obtains in other universities considering the provisions of the Personal Income Tax 2011 as amended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan by administration to hastily introduce this unpopular tax regime is an indication of callousness and a demonstration of its insensitivity to staff welfare. Let it be known that we are prepared to go all length to protect the interest of our members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>EKSU management had on Thursday, following protest by members of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions of the university, suspended implementation of the new tax policy and presentation of primary six certificates by staff members.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by EKSU Head, Directorate of Information, Bode Olofinmuagun, said the decision was reached after EKSU management led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Edward Olanipekun, met with NASU members.<\/p>\n<p>Olofinmuagun stated, \u201cThe management has decided to put on hold both issues\u201d, clarifying that the institution would have further deliberations on the grey areas as he advised members of the university community to go about with their normal official duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ekiti State University, Dr Kayode Arogundade, said on Friday that all EKSU-ASUU members have been put on \u2018red alert\u2019 over the nine months\u2019 salaries being owed them and other welfare issues. Arogundade also said, \u201cIf the university must continue to enjoy the relative peace prevailing at present, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[738,308,309],"class_list":["post-16024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-asuu","tag-ekiti","tag-fayemi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our members are on \u2018red alert\u2019 \u2014Ekiti varsity ASUU - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/our-members-are-on-red-alert-ekiti-varsity-asuu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our members are on \u2018red alert\u2019 \u2014Ekiti varsity ASUU\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ekiti State University, Dr Kayode Arogundade, said on Friday that all EKSU-ASUU members have been put on \u2018red alert\u2019 over the nine months\u2019 salaries being owed them and other welfare issues. 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