Polytechnic lecturers, others protest 3years unpaid salaries
Several academic and non-academic staff of the Kaduna State University have protested their unpaid salaries. Some of the affected staffers claimed they were owed three years salary arrears.
The protesters, who spoke anonymously in a report, also said that the university was under the office of the head of service of the state.
They added that they were equally excluded from taking part in the state’s health insurance scheme.
The enrolment of the affected workers into the university’s payroll is being done in phases.
“It has been hard because as an academic staff (member), you are working and then you see your colleagues getting (credit) alerts whereas you are not getting anything. It is demoralising and things are very hard,” one of the workers allegedly said.
Hajia Habiba Shekarau, head of service of the state, had mentioned in a media enquiry that university was autonomous. But, reacting, Adamu Bargo, the university’s public relations officer, said that the instiitution did not have total autonomy and that state government pays the workers salaries.
