The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Non-Academic Staff of University (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Taraba State University Jalingo, have again protested the non-payment of their salaries and hazard allowances.
Our Correspondent reports that the protest took place at the University premises.
The university staff in their protest letter presented to the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Sunday Bako, demanded the payment of their outstanding salary balance for March and June 2022, outstanding responsibility and hazard allowances for September 2021.
They also demanded the payments of their 75% outstanding third-party deductions for October 2021, outstanding full salaries of July to December 2022, promotion arrears of the non-academic staff, payment of the Earned Administrative Allowances (EAA) for non-teaching staff on a ratio of 50:50 with the academic staff.
The NASU and SSANU Chairmen, Mr. Solomon Ishaya Audu and Bitrus Joseph Ajibauka all during the protest noted that under the above and in the interest of industrial harmony, JAC of the university called on the Council and the Management to do the needful as a matter of necessity to alleviate the hardship of the aggrieved members.
The union, however, appreciated the university Council and Management for the payment of February 2022 salary.
In his remarks, Vice Chancellor of the University Professor Sunday Bako , assured that the university management and the government were working hard to meet the staff’s legitimate demands.
“I understand that for years, it has been the student’s fees that the university has been using to meet the staff’s full salaries”.
Prof. Sunday Bako revealed that ever since he took over as the Vice-Chancellor, students have not been on campus until a few months ago, and the usual 120 million from the government cannot meet up their full salaries.
Sani Sulaiman