The administration of Ambrose Alli College, AAU, Ekpoma, has denied owing any workers of the establishment 26 months salaries.
reporter experiences that the establishment’s denial is in response to the allegations by the Tutorial Workers Union of Universities, ASUU of the Establishment that the administration owed its members month-to-month salaries for 26 months.
Recall that ASUU had alleged throughout a press convention in Benin Metropolis, that the non-payment of 26 months of workers salaries and different anti-worker insurance policies contributed to the demise of over 25 of its members.
Reacting to the allegations and different points, the administration stated, it was not owing any workers salaries as all salaries had since been paid so far.
The Head of Communication and Protocol of the College, Otunba Mike Aladenika, in an announcement made accessible to newsmen on Monday in Benin Metropolis, additionally insisted that no one died because of the non-payment of salaries.
In response to him, no one died because of the non-payment of salaries. In the event that they insist they need to present the names of the lifeless workers.
“To listen to that the college is owing ASUU members as much as 26 months wage is unfaithful. One is compelled to ask who this specific set of individuals allegedly being owed salaries are and why their names should not being talked about. Are there explanation why their identities are being saved?
“As I converse with you now, the February 2024 salaries of AAU workers have been paid. Workers and pensioners of the College acquired their salaries on the twenty sixth of February. It’s possible you’ll want to go and confirm. The Chairman of ASUU, AAUE, who was the chief of the press convention picked up his February 2024 salaries earlier than he got here to the press briefing.
“Additionally ask the ASUU chairman if he and his different educational workers members weren’t paid their December salaries by the College on December twenty second (earlier than Christmas) 2023 and November 2023 salaries on November twenty eighth, 2023”, he requested.
Aladenika famous that what ASUU referred to as unpaid salaries, have been the eight months’ salaries owed them throughout a strike and the no-work-no-pay order was in drive.
The varsity’s picture maker, nonetheless, assured workers, college students and all stakeholders of the college that the administration is working onerous to take the establishment to better heights.
Aladenika who opined that the college stays aggressive and on the trail of progress added that every one fingers are on the plough and never trying again.
He disclosed that a lot of the points raised by the management of ASSU are already in courtroom, including that some issues should be addressed to set the information straight within the curiosity of the College, college students, law-abiding members of workers, dad and mom, guardians and members of the general public.
