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— Want peculiar involution funds, summation successful monthly subvention
By Dayo Johnson, Akure
Lecturers astatine the Ondo authorities authorities owned Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko, AAUA, person cried retired implicit progressively unbearable unit welfare, infrastructural decay and non merchandise of superior assistance for 7 years by the authorities government.
They lamented that the superior assistance appropriated for the instauration by the authorities House of Assembly for 7 years person not been released by the authorities government.
Addressing newsmen successful Akure, the Chairperson of the institutions Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Comrade Boluwaji Oshodi, besides said that the authorities authorities has taken the TETfund involution distant from the instauration hence the decay successful infrastructural facilities.
Oshodi who painted a atrocious authorities of the instauration said that ” Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko has been neglected for excessively long. The University has not enjoyed immoderate signifier of important involution by the authorities authorities since its constitution successful 1999.
“It is connected grounds that a sister tertiary instauration successful the authorities has received peculiar fiscal involution connected specified than 2 occasions.
” The precocious Akeredolu authorities gave the tertiary instauration successful question N850m portion the existent Governor. Dr Aiyedatiwa, has fixed this aforesaid instauration Special Financial Intervention twice, N850m successful the archetypal lawsuit and different N897min the 2nd lawsuit making a full of N2.597b. The question indispensable the asked, what has AAUA done incorrect oregon not doing right?
” It is our condemnation that, what is bully for the goose is arsenic bully for the gander. An instauration that has been good managed deserves to beryllium supported.
” With the fiscal prudency and effect oriented absorption skills displayed by AAUA Managers successful the past 7 years, coupled with the precocious level of dedication and committedness shown by world unit of the University, it is bittersweet that unit are being owed salaries.
” The Ondo authorities authorities should urgently code the challenges being faced by the University by the urgent merchandise of peculiar involution funds to offset outstanding salaries and allowances,increase successful the monthly subvention to the University that is commensurate with the wage measure of implicit N500m. Adekunie Ajazin University, Akungba Akako (AAUA), A Twenty archetypal Century University decently called is our pridefulness and we shall proceed to enactment for its progress.
Oshodi said that the national enforcement members person met with the authorities politician Lucky Aiyedatiwa connected issues bothering connected inadequate backing and the request for the merchandise of superior grants to the University were discussed and respective knowing were reached.
He however, said that the gathering has not yielded immoderate affirmative involution successful the plight of the institution.
The chairperson, declared that ” the neglect of the University has greatly affected the payment of world unit of the University.
Oshodi the 2 roads linking the instauration to Owo- lkare large road are successful deplorable conditions and that lecture rooms, laboratories and the room needed urgent facelift.
According to him ” Lecturers offices are the worst hit, the module of Arts, a two-storey gathering for illustration has been abandoned by unit accommodated connected the 2nd level due to the fact that the interior extortion of astir offices person collapsed and are usually flooded anytime it rains.
“The aforesaid happening is happening to the Faculty of Education. The extortion is leaking making the offices successful the past level to go inhabitable anytime it rains.
On mediocre backing and monthly subvention, the lecturers said that the monthly subvention to the University is N223m portion the wage and overhead outgo N555m adding that the instauration managers has to root for N333m each period to statement the subvention from authorities successful bid to conscionable up with wage payment.
Oshodi noted that “As we talk contiguous October 3, 2025, isolated from backlog of antithetic benignant of arrears, our members are being owed twe months wage (August and September, 2025), which led to the ongoing onslaught enactment by ASUU members successful AAU...
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