Osun lecturer finds N150 as February salary in account, collapses in bank









Written by:
Saheed Salawu




A lecturer in a tertiary institution in Osun State (name withheld), on Thursday, collapsed inside a bank located within the institution’s premises following a discrepancy in his salary.

Witnesses said the lecturer fainted after discovering that his account had only been credited with N150 by the state government as 50 percent of his February salary instead of N150,000.

The lecturer, who is a post-graduate student at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), according to a witness, lamented, after being resuscitated by the bank’s officials, that the money paid by the government into his account could not even transport him to Akure, where he was billed to write an examination.

The man, it was gathered, also disclosed that he had some outstanding fees to pay at the university which he had proposed to pay with the expected salary.

As of the time of this report, he was said to be in a private hospital in Osogbo where his blood pressure, which had increased as a result of the shocking discovery in his account, was being managed.

Staff members of four tertiary institutions in the state - Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke; Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and colleges of education in Ilesa and Ila-Oragun - have expressed concern over alleged discrepancies in the payment of their salaries since November 2014.

A lecturer in the Department of Accounting in one of the schools (name withheld) lamented that his gross salary and net pay were N210,000 and N140,000, respectively, but he only received the sum of N260 as his February salary.

A management staff of the institution, whose salary is about N400,000, was also said to have received N12,000 for the same month.

Many teaching and non-teaching staff members of the institutions have criticised the state government for what they called the abnormalities being witnessed in the payment of their outstanding salaries.

It was also alleged that monies deducted by the state government from workers’ salaries for the purpose of schemes like the cooperative society had not been remitted since August 2014.

When Saturday Tribune visited the institutions on Friday, the gates were locked by workers who were protesting the development.

A worker at one of the institutions told Saturday Tribune that he collected the sum of N30,000 in December, N58,000 in January, while he received N125 as his take-home for the month of February.

He said fuelling his car from Ilesa to Esa-Oke had become a problem, just as he had been unable to collect his children’s report sheets from a private school in Ilesa because he could not pay their tuition.

The Public Relations Officer of the Academic Staff Union of state-owned institutions, and ASUP chairman of the state Polytechnic, Iree, Mr Dotun Omisore, in an interview with Saturday Tribune confirmed the ordeal of the lecturer who fainted and also condemned the “abnormalities and irregularities” in the payment of salaries of workers, saying that “we will not call off our strike until all our salaries and deductions” are paid by the state government.

Omisore warned that the deduction of workers’ contributions to the contributory pension scheme by the state government since about 36 months ago allegedly without remittance to the pension managers must also stop.

“If they cannot account for the one they have deducted, they should stop further deductions. Our pension is our hope and future. After 30 or 35 years in service, what are we expected to collect if the government is not remitting it?”

Omisore, however, disclosed that the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, had invited labour leaders in the institutions to a meeting this weekend to discuss the “abnormality” in the payment of salaries


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They should better look into it because its a slap to the face and embarrassment to the country..
All these are partially the reasons why our lecturers turns the students into business investments. If it is not this hand out, it will be this text book, or fail people woefully to initiate sorting, even textbooks you will end up not using till the end of that session.

Ohh, poor man, hezz got plans γ̲̣̣̥♡̷̴̬̩̃̊u̶̲̥̅̊ know

XavierBlue:
why booking space? It already on fp
Didn't know.. booked it wen it just came out.


XavierBlue

really? But still can't see it on FP

Aregbesola and the people in charge of salary disbursements are mad. Forget party affiliation. ...You can only feel the pains being caused when you are either a direct victim or you have a family or friend who is a victim. ..

The solution is simply Taxation.
For starters ,Make the universities fund themselves. Go after those who seller by the road side and who pay nothing.
Just getting At least a few of the 2000,000 citizens of tax paying age contributing 4000 a month will do the trick .
When people get to the point when taxes starts hurting, then they know that they are paying the right taxes.
The day people realise that they have to have skin in the game ,that is when we will start seeing movement.
That is before we talk about the federal government which vacuums all the wealth produced in the states and share it laggard States .
Ogun can do with the taxes on beer consumption in her territory which are presently shared with sharia States .

I lost hope in this country a long time ago. Nigeria is cursed.

spanishkid:
I lost hope in this country a long time ago. Nigeria is cursed.

It's ur Edo state that is cursed not Nigeria.

lygn19:

It's ur Edo state that is cursed not Nigeria.

and your hopeless and useless father too.

Lol

spanishkid:
and your hopeless and useless father too.

And ur entire generation of Italian Prost1tutes.

Shuffering and shmilling RIP Fela Kuti

Why o why are those in high places so inconsiderate to the plight of the not so privileged/ well placed. This is callous and embarrassing and I hope d perpetrators are served a plate of their own dish soon enough!

oduastates:
The solution is simply Taxation.
For starters ,Make the universities fund themselves. Go after those who seller by the road side and who pay nothing.
Just getting At least a few of the 2000,000 citizens of tax paying age contributing 4000 a month will do the trick .
When people get to the point when taxes starts hurting, then they know that they are paying the right taxes.
The day people realise that they have to have skin in the game ,that is when we will start seeing movement.
That is before we talk about the federal government which vacuums all the wealth produced in the states and share it laggard States .
Ogun can do with the taxes on beer consumption in her territory which are presently shared with sharia States .

. Shameless tiger clawed faces. Was this not the same osun state whose economy is bigger than Japan? Jokers!

Osun people, enjoy your smelly change
No pity, no mercy

His student go hear wehn!
If salary isn't coming the sales of hand-out is inevitable. Even selling pass marks could be a way out.

A drowning man will hold on anything to survive. I pity the poor man.

All because successive governments looted the funds needed to provide credit facilities to workers and Nigerians in general