#ASUUStrike Update: Earned allowance: ASUU warns Unilorin ...Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned the authorities of the University of Ilorin not to share the N986.7 million earned allowance disbursed to it by the Federal Government until the ASUU strike is over.

Speaking in Ibadan, the Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Ilorin Zone, Dr Ayan Adeleke, said the authentic ASUU chairman of Unilorin, Dr Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, had already conveyed the position of the union to the vice chancellor of the university, Professor AbdulGaniyu Ambali, that the struggle for funding was still ongoing, warning that universities should not betray the struggle by disbursing the earned allowances until the struggle is over.

This position, according to Nigerian Tribune sources, is not unconnected with information  that workers of the University of Ilorin, on Wednesday, engaged themselves and the university management over  modalities for sharing the university’s share of the N30 billion disbursed to universities by the Federal Government.

Dr Adeleke, who denounced the Professor Wahab Egbewole faction noted that “the group had been declared illegal by the National Industrial Court,” adding that “whatever they are doing is illegal.”

Also speaking, the chairman of ASUU, University of Ibadan, Dr Segun Ajiboye,  said “it is the height of immorality for these fellows in Ilorin to be squabbling over the proceeds of a struggle they did not participate in,” maintaining that the strike is beyond the issue of earned allowance.

Dr Ajiboye said the union is committed to the full revitilisation of the public university system and not the peanut of earned allowances dangled before it by the Federal Government.

It will be recalled that a circular entitled: “A Departure from our Collective Agreement,” emanating from the Professor Egbewole faction informed academic staff that: “From the gravevine,  we learnt on Monday, 30th September, that the bursary is planning to pay 75 per cent instead of 100 per cent of our collective agreement.”

The release, dated 3rd October, 2013 also warned that: “Our position remains uncompromised, and that is that we are not ready to accept partial payment of any of those allowances, but rather the full payment of the allowances for which we have fully agreed on.”