— Need particular intervention funds, enhance in month-to-month subvention
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
Lecturers on the Ondo state authorities owned Adekunle Ajasin College Akungba-Akoko, AAUA, have cried out over more and more insufferable employees welfare, infrastructural decay and non launch of capital grant for seven years by the state authorities.
They lamented that the capital grant appropriated for the establishment by the state Home of Meeting for seven years haven’t been launched by the state authorities.
Addressing newsmen in Akure, the Chairperson of the establishments Educational Employees Union of Universities, ASUU, Comrade Boluwaji Oshodi, additionally stated that the state authorities has taken the TETfund intervention away from the establishment therefore the decay in infrastructural amenities.
Oshodi who painted a sorry state of the establishment stated that ” Adekunle Ajasin College, Akungba-Akoko has been uncared for for too lengthy. The College has not loved any type of important intervention by the state authorities since its institution in 1999.
“It’s on report {that a} sister tertiary establishment within the state has acquired particular monetary intervention on mere than two events.
” The late Akeredolu regime gave the tertiary establishment in query N850m whereas the present Governor. Dr Aiyedatiwa, has given this similar establishment Particular Monetary Intervention twice, N850m within the first occasion and one other N897min the second occasion making a complete of N2.597b. The query should the requested, what has AAUA finished mistaken or not doing proper?
” It’s our conviction that, what is sweet for the goose is equally good for the gander. An establishment that has been nicely managed deserves to be supported.
” With the monetary prudency and outcome oriented administration abilities displayed by AAUA Managers within the final seven years, coupled with the excessive degree of dedication and dedication proven by educational employees of the College, it’s unhappy that employees are being owed salaries.
” The Ondo state authorities ought to urgently deal with the challenges being confronted by the College by the pressing launch of particular intervention funds to offset excellent salaries and allowances,enhance within the month-to-month subvention to the College that’s commensurate with the wage invoice of over N500m. Adekunie Ajazin College, Akungba Akako (AAUA), A Twenty first Century College correctly referred to as is our satisfaction and we will proceed to work for its progress.
Oshodi stated that the union government members have met with the state governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa on points bothering on insufficient funding and the necessity for the discharge of capital grants to the College had been mentioned and a number of other understanding had been reached.
He nevertheless, stated that the assembly has not yielded any constructive intervention within the plight of the establishment.
The chairperson, declared that ” the neglect of the College has vastly affected the welfare of educational employees of the College.
Oshodi the 2 roads linking the establishment to Owo- lkare main freeway are in deplorable situations and that lecture rooms, laboratories and the library wanted pressing facelift.
Based on him ” Lecturers places of work are the worst hit, the college of Arts, a two-storey constructing for instance has been deserted by employees accommodated on the second ground as a result of the inside roof of most places of work have collapsed and are normally flooded anytime it rains.
“The identical factor is going on to the School of Schooling. The roof is leaking making the places of work within the final ground to turn out to be inhabitable anytime it rains.
On poor funding and month-to-month subvention, the lecturers stated that the month-to-month subvention to the College is N223m whereas the wage and overhead price N555m including that the establishment managers has to supply for N333m each month to argument the subvention from authorities to be able to meet up with wage fee.
Oshodi famous that “As we communicate as we speak October 3, 2025, aside from backlog of various kind of arrears, our members are being owed twe months wage (August and September, 2025), which led to the continued strike motion by ASUU members in AAUA.
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