BY Boniface Obi

A group of ten physically challenged staff members of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, Anambra state has lamented that unpaid salaries of their members outstanding for about five years now has compounded their natural pitiable condition.

Spokesperson of the group, Mr. Onwukwuwe Chijioke told Factcheckng that since five years after they concluded documentation of their employment by the university they have not still been paid salaries.

He appealed to all influencial members of the public to prevail on the Vice-chancellor of the university, Professor Charles Esimone to approve payment of their salaries.

Onwukwuwe decried that the prevailing harsh economic situation in the country coupled with the their unpaid salaries is taking breathe out of their lives.

Onwukwuwe stated that since December 2020 the federal government's Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, implementation commenced, even though members of his group have been properly captured in the salary payment arrangement of the university none of them has been receiving salaries.

He lamented that his colleagues have made several trips to Abuja where they visited the relevant ministries to sort out the logjam, yet they have not been able to be receiving their salaries.

"Those of us who have families are even worse off in our present situation because meeting family needs has become extremely difficult for us", he lamented further.