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mecuzee:
Eya. After wearing AGBADA to the bank and everyone greeting you up and down only to find N150 in your account! E reach to FAINT!

A lecturer in a tertiary institutionin 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 transporthim 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 institutionsin 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.

The Peoples Democratic Party Staff Welfare
Association has alleged that the party’s National
Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, worked
against the re-election of former President
Goodluck Jonathan.

The aggrieved workers made this known in a
statement by the chairman of their association,
Ngozi Nze and secretary, Dan Ochu-Baiye in
Abuja on Saturday.

According to the workers, Metuh worked against
Jonathan because he lost the post of the
Director of Publicity of the Presidential Campaign
to Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode.

The statement read: “We have incontrovertible
evidence that the man who is PDP Publicity
Secretary worked assiduously against the
presidential candidate of the PDP, former
President Goodluck Jonathan in the last election
in order to requite the ex-President for rejecting
him as Director of Publicity of the Presidential
Campaign which was given to Mr.Femi Fani-
Kayode, a development which came after Metuh
had squandered a whooping sum of N450m
media fund earlier approved for the office of PDP
Publicity Secretary by Jonathan.”

The association also described as an absolute
bunkum, a clumsy, and blundering blackmail, an
allegation by Metuh that the staff members were
being sponsored by the ruling All Progressives
Congress.

The workers said that such a weak shot from a
“mortally crippled arsenal of witch-hunt is
incapable of breaking the resolve of the staff to
expose the thieving band in the NWC and restore
the core vision of the party.”

“We are not surprised that the allegation will
become the most fashionable means of covering
tracks,” the statement said.

The angry workers are also asking the NWC
members to account for the over N12bn which
they said were squandered by them in just nine
months.

According to them, “We therefore place on
record that the majority of the establishment
staff of the PDP are not just unrepentant
members of the party who have spent over 16
years in service; who have assimilated the PDP
ethos as a way of political life but are also the
repository of the party’s institutional memory
whose spirit can hardly succumb to the
ephemerality of power loss.”

They alleged that in the January 2010 Anambra
governorship election, Metuh as National Vice-
Chairman, South-East abandoned Prof.
Chukwuma Soludo, the PDP candidate while
openly galvanizing support for Hope Democratic
Party candidate, who they described as his friend
and benefactor.

“The PDP did not only woefully lose in Otolo
Nnewi Ward 1 of the Party’s zonal Vice Chairman
but came a distant third in his polling booth!
What a faithful party officer!”

They asked Metuh to explain what he did with
“the huge sum of N70m that he collected in July
in the name of fighting the APC in the media.”

In his reaction, Metuh through his aide, Mr.
Richard Ihediwa, said he was ready for probe,
adding that those behind the statement chose to
drift away from issues and narrowed on him.
He said such was not unexpected given the his
role in “rebuilding his party and how
uncomfortable the APC has been for his
outspokenness.

“We are aware that the anti-PDP forces have
easily found a handful of disgruntled PDP
employees as willing tools to attack Metuh with
a view to bringing him to public odium, distract
him and deny our party a credible voice to
propagate its positions.

“These forces had even gone to the extent of
engineering some discontented PDP members to
portray statements by the National Publicity
Secretary as his personal opinions in the attempt
to discredit and intimidate him.”

“We make bold to state that Metuh, being aware
of the challenges that comes with his new role,
has offered himself, his office as well as all his
private companies for probe by the Department
of State Service or any other government agency
for that matter.”

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1miccza:
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write2obi:
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mgbedianya:
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Question 1 ; A mother is 21 years older than her child in 6 years time the mother will be 5 times older than her baby. Then, where is the father?

Why u dey find the father, he owe u money

fashoo2010:
pls dis MED-PRO has been sending me message as well, bt I didn't go... Are they GNLD people as well

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Nickymezor:
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TTYL=Talk to you later

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