{"id":256436,"date":"2020-09-09T20:36:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=256436"},"modified":"2020-09-09T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T19:36:46","slug":"asuu-protests-6-years-salary-arrears-entitlements-in-unical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=256436","title":{"rendered":"ASUU protests 6 years salary arrears entitlements in UNICAL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"ASUU<\/h2>\n

By Ike Uchechukwu \u2013 Calabar<\/h3>\n

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Calabar (UNICAL) Chapter has protested six years of unpaid salaries and entitlements by the institution.<\/p>\n

The ASUU members who converged in their numbers at the UNICAL International Conference Centre and took their protest to the main gate before dispersing at the administrative building were demanding unpaid salaries by the University.<\/p>\n

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Vanguard<\/strong><\/em> <\/em>gathered that some of the placards used by the protesting lecturers carried inscriptions like \u201cpay our CES arrears, pay our GSS arrears, pay our postgraduate thesis supervision, pay our promotion arrears, pay our study fellowship and conference attendance arrears\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the protest, John Edor, Chairman of ASUU, UNICAL chapter said the unpaid salaries and arrears range from between 4 to 6 years depending on the subhead.<\/p>\n

He said they have been asking for their arrears for long but the COVID-19 pandemic and IPPIS monster has compounded their \u201cvagaries and vicissitudes\u201d.<\/p>\n

His words: \u201cOur grievances are that for a number of years now members of ASUU, University of Calabar Chapter have been working and our entitlements have not been paid to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch entitlements include the teaching of GSS Courses, Graduate Thesis Supervision Allowance, CES Courses, Sandwich programmes, Pre-degree and promotion arrears.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of our members had been employed and they commenced payment of their salaries but a backlog of their salaries is left unpaid and that is what we call salary arrears.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if the federal government has refused to pay our salaries what we have earned which is not one, two, or three but some are running into five, six years should be immediately paid to us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been asking for our entitlements for long but the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded our vagaries and vicissitudes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lockdown has made it impossible for us to go and source for other legitimate means of livelihood to feed our families,\u201d Edor said.<\/p>\n

He said the protest is only the beginning and if their entitlements are not paid, they will commence an \u201cOperation Occupy UNICAL,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, no member of the institution\u2019s management was on the ground to address the protesting lecturers.<\/p>\n

Vanguard<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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