Ogun College of Education’s lecturers protest non-payment of 11 months salaries
, Demand removal of college registrar
From Moshood Adebayo, Abeokuta
Thursday, August 11, 2011


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No fewer than 200 lecturers of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State yesterday took to the streets in the town protesting non-payment of their salaries for the past 11 months.

The aggrieved lecturers who were also demanding the removal of the college’s Registrar, Alhaji Tunji Kanimodo also demanded full payment of their salaries.
According to them, the state government had “mutilated and fractionalised our salary by paying only 50 percent of our monthly dues; this is against Labour code, because a labourer’s sweat must not dry.’’

With placards bearing different inscriptions like: “Do not visit the sin of Daniel on us;” “Amosun, we need salary not subvention;” “Kanimodo has politicised the college with PPN, he must go,” among others. The protesters alleged that the institution’s Registrar, Kanimodo, whom they said was a Level 9 officer was a political apologist of the former governor, Gbenga Daniel and was not qualified to hold such position.

The Chairman of the Tai Solarin College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Femi Osibamowo who led other protesters said: “All we are asking for is the full implementation of the payment of our salary in COMCASS for the month of May and June.” The lecturers also pleaded with the state Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, to return them back to their former site at Ijagun, which currently hosts the Tai Solarin University of Education to enable them generate the needed IGR to augment their monthly salary.

Addressing journalists after the protest at the campus of the school in Omu-Ijebu, Osibamowo said the Land Use Act that was used to appropriate land for the TAISUED read that the land belonged to Tai Solarin College of Education (TAISCE) and not the university (TAISUED).
While giving the management of the institution a 72- hour ultimatum within which to confer with the state government, the lecturers also appealed to Amosun to also dialogue with them.
“It is necessary that Governor Amosun grants us audience to enable him know the degree of rot in the educational sector in the state and be able to take a decisive step to correct the anomalies.

“We are now imploring the government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun to please save our soul. The last government did not pay us mutilated or fractional salary; we do not know where the circular for the payment of obnoxious mutilated salary emanated from. We are not confronting this government, this government should be magnanimous enough to study what is on ground to be able to see what is on ground.

“They should be able to speak with the union like it dialogued with the management and the students. Why now ostracising the union? There are many things the union will tell the governor if given the opportunity to do so,” Osibamowo stated. Attempts to speak with the Provost of the college, Dr. Abiodun Ojo met rebuff as he told journalists he would not speak on the matter.

ACN has already stolen all the money?

South-East:

ACN has already stolen all the money?

Can you comprehend simple sentences?
When did ACN got to the seat of Power?
How can you be blaming the ACN for a crime committee by OGD from PDP, a party which Alex Ekwueme, a yanmirin man was the FOUNDING FATHER.

If the 11 was at the end of July that means PDP owed 9 months of that.

What a shame PDP is