The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University has threatened to withhold salaries of workers who are on strike.
The staff had started a strike action on June 6, in protest of what
they considered the imposition of a Vice Chancellor on the institution.
A directive containing the threat by the management was signed by the Registrar of the school, Dotun Awoyemi, and dated June 20.
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“The university has viewed with grave concern the continued absence
of some members of staff of SSANU and NASU and allied institutions from
their duty post with the declaration of trade dispute since June 7,
2016,” it read.
“The University Administration hereby directs all such members of
staff to immediately report to their respective duty posts; otherwise
the University Administration may not be in able to guarantee the
payment of June 2016 salaries to this categories of workers.”
But the workers, who are also in court to challenge the appointment,
have intensified their protest against non-payment of allowances and the
alleged imposition of a vice-chancellor despite the threat by the
university’s authorities.
On Tuesday, the protesting workers appeared in red and black dresses,
playing anti-oppression songs, and vowing to stop the new VC from
resuming office on Friday.
The workers went on strike when the University’s Governing Council announced Prof. Ayobami Salam as the new Vice chancellor.
Though the counsel to the university denied the appointment of a new
VC at the Osun State High Court hearing last Friday afternoon, the
Governing Council on Saturday officially announced Mr. Salami.
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The announcement made on the university’s website read: “The
Governing Council, at its Special meeting held on June 6, 2016,
considered the report of the Joint Council and Senate Selection Board
for the appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor for the University and
decided to appoint Professor Ayobami Taofeek Salami as the eleventh
Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile – Ife, for a term
of five years with effect from June 24, 2015.”
Meanwhile, the protesting workers insisted they would continue with
their protests till July 6, 2016, when another court hearing would hold.
“The University’s Governing Council should keep committing
illegality. On July 6, we would know if they actually received a court
injunction or not,” chairman of NASU, Wole Odewunmi, said.
“We will keep picketing the Senate building Immediately it’s 10am, we
will assemble at motion ground to continue picketing, that’s not more
like a protest, it’s picketing.”
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