The lecturers of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State staged a protest over the irregular payment on their salaries in the past three years, on Monday 17th March and they agreed to stay away from lecture room indefinitely.
The protesters showed their grievances to the Vice Chancellor, Prof Saburi Adesanya of the Institution through a letter and urged him to directly forward their message to Governor Ibikunle Amusun.
The Chairman of the OOU branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Dr.Deji Agboola accused Ogun State government for the irregular payment. He also appeal to the Governor, Governor Amosun to put lectures salaries in the first line charge of expenditure, just like other civil and public servants in the State. He further buttress the fact that the irregular payment of lecturers salaries denied them to meet their financial obligations. He added that:
'we are tired of working for months and receiving only one month salary. our members have affirmed that they have been deprived the opportunity to come to work as salaries are not paid'Dr. Agboola also alleged that lecturers of OOU had in the past three years been subjected to arbitrary taxation by the State government, which led to confusions in the volume of taxes being paid by them.
The lecturers further fated the use of the Point of Sales System for the collection of fees in the institution, describing it as exploitation and negating the whit paper issued by the Visitation Panel to the institution set up by the current administration.
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