The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Lagos State University
chapter, has demanded the payment of accumulated Earned Academic
Allowance unpaid since 2009 to lecturers in the institution.
The union’s demand is captured in its bulletin obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos.
The
demands, signed by signed by its Secretary, Dr Tony Dansu and the
Assistant Secretary, Dr Adeolu Oyekan, indicated that the EAA was a
product of the ASUU/Federal Government Agreement of 2009, which
redefined the minimum benchmark for university administration in
Nigeria.
ASUU-LASU said that the Lagos State Government and
LASU’s administration had since breached the agreement, as it remains
the only university yet to pay any fraction of the allowance throughout
the country.
“The EAA, it should be noted, was part of the
negotiated emolument of academic staff whose payment was deferred by the
university when it started to implement the new salary structure.
“No
one in his wildest of imagination expects the university to accumulate
the allowances spanning a period of almost a decade,” it said.
According
to the union, ASUU-LASU under different leadership made a case for the
payment of the allowances so that the university avoids an accumulation
that may in the future prove burdensome.
It said these plans
were ignored by successive administrations and as at January 2016 when
the current Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun assumed office,
the arrears had already spanned to about 6 years.
The union said
it had raised the issue with the current vice-chancellor and forwarded
components of the allowances to him when he suggested that the
university had no understanding of them.
“This has since followed
numerous reminders but the vice-chancellor has not for once responded
and it is on this basis that the union executives decided in line with
congress directive to take the case to public domain,” it said.
The
union noted that the ongoing renegotiation between ASUU and the Federal
Government had to do with the need to improve the conditions agreed to
in 2009 which was long overdue for review.
According to
ASUU-LASU, the ongoing renegotiation has nothing to do with the
implementation of the subsisting agreement as claimed by the
vice-chancellor in one of his bulletins.
The union said the
disregard that the university administration had exhibited toward its
own academic staff was the reason why it remained the only university
yet to pay any fraction of the allowance.
ASUU-LASU, however,
reassured the staff of its readiness to meet, dialogue and explore
reasonable pathways geared toward ensuring payment of the long overdue
allowance.
Reacting, the university’s spokesman, Mr Ademola
Adekoya, told NAN that the issues of the unpaid EAA predates the tenure
of the current vice-chancellor.
“The unpaid Earned Academic
Allowances predated the assumption of Fagbohun to office and has been
lingering since 2009 when the Federal Government agreed with ASUU that
the allowances will be paid.
“Since then, nothing was paid, before the vice-chancellor was appointed in 2016, and when he came on board, he met a lot of unpaid salary arrears, denied promotions and that became his priority.
“He cannot just come and begin to pay earned academic allowances and leave promotion and salary arrears unpaid,” he said.
Adekoya
challenged ASUU-LASU to name Nigerian universities that had paid the
EAA to a reasonable amount, as many of them were even struggling to pay
salaries as when due.
“How many universities have been paying the EAA in Nigeria? Most of them are struggling to pay salaries.
“The
demands of workers in other universities is for their salaries to be
paid as when due, as workers in some universities are even collecting
half salaries so they are not talking about earned academic allowances
for now,” he said.
Adekoya disclosed that the vice-chancellor on
behalf of the university administration was not refusing to pay the
allowances but was only requesting that things be prioritised so that
workers salaries could still be paid regularly.
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