Unpaid Salaries: Osun Lecturers Storm House Of Assembly To Submit ‘Save Our Souls Letter’

On Monday, September 14, lecturers under the aegis of Council of Academic Staff Unions of Osun State Owned Tertiary Institutions stormed the Osun State House of Assembly to protest nonpayment of their salaries for the past eight months.

Osun Lecturers stormed the Osun State House of Assembly to protest nonpayment of their salaries for the past eight months. Photo credits: The Punch

The Punch reports that the lecturers were led by the chairman of the body, Lasisi Jimoh, the secretary of the council, Olusegun Lana, and public relations officer, Dotun Omisore.

Armed with placards lecturers were chanting: ‘Save Our Souls’, ‘Enough Is Enough’, ‘Pay Our Salaries’ and ‘We Reject Half Salaries’ and sang anti-government songs.

The disappointed people rejected the state government’s plan to pay half salaries and stressed that they would not submit themselves to fresh screening directed by the government. According to them, the government’s plan is shocking because the state has received its share of the bailout fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Folorunsho Bamisayemi, the chief whip of the House of Assembly, called on protesters to exercise patience and assured them that efforts were underway to ensure their demands were met.

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Meanwhile, the secretary of the council noted that lecturers had been on strike for the past months but the government had never tried to negotiate with them.

“We came to the House of Assembly to submit “Save Our Souls letter”. The protest went well until the speaker walked out on us.

“The state government has not been remitting pension deductions from our salaries to our Pension Fund Administrators, this is against the law. The deductions are supposed to be remitted seven days after salaries are paid but this is not happening.”

Lana added that the institutions were understaffed and some lecturers were overburdened despite not being paid for many months.

Meanwhile, the Osun state House of Assembly began impeachment proceedings against Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his deputy, Grace Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, after a petition by Justice Folahanmi Oloyede.

The lawmakers will probe Aregbesola over allegedly mismanagement of state resources which led to workers being denied salaries for eight months.

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