Staff of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State Yesterday
protested against what they described as victimization and
highhandedness by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Azuzu.
The aggrieved staff who blocked the Ado-Lokoja-Abuja federal highway as
early as 7a.m and made bonfire are accusing the VC of non-payment of
staff allowances and non-remittance of tax deducted from their salaries
to the appropriate quarters.
According to Mr. Ojo Foluso, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission are yet to respond to the petition they sent in that
regard.
Another staff who pleaded anonymity, commented as follows; “Under normal
circumstances, each senior staff ought to receive between N1.2m to N1.5
million as relocation allowance as introduced by the federal government
in 2007. But we were only paid N252,000 in three installments when our
agitations were becoming so deafening.
“To end all these problems, we call on the university to implement the
recommendations of the Prof Aganga-committee which stated that tax must
no longer be based on consolidation but be worked based on basic
salaries of all workers and the excess deductions must be refunded to
all workers without delay.
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