Kwara: Ahmed's administration owed teachers seven months salaries - Unions

Date: 2020-01-17

Committee of Unions in Tertiary Institutions (CUTI), an amalgam of teachers in Kwara State Colleges of Education, has faulted the claim of former Governor Abdulfatahi Ahmed that his administration did not owe any workers on the state's payroll.

Comrade Imam Abdulkadir, chairman of CUTI, said in a statement issued in Ilorin that the claim by the former Governor was false because he left at least seven months of unpaid salary amounting to N750m to the teachers across the colleges. The body, however, commended Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for settling the arrears as well as getting their courses re-accredited.

The statement read: "The attention of Committee of Unions in Tertiary Institutions ( CUTI) has been drawn to the claim by former Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed through his media aide that the immediate past administration was up to date in payment of state civil servants salary before he left office, particularly the state-owned Tertiary Institutions.

"To this end, the Unions wish to reiterate that the claims by the former Governor Ahmed through his aide Dr. Muhideen Akorede was false and misleading. The state-owned tertiary institutions were owed seven months' salaries to the tune of seven hundred and fifty million naira. Equally, the policy of the immediate past administration to commercialise education in the state impacted negatively on both the staff and students of the institutions.

"It would be recalled that failure of the immediate past administration to pay salaries of the state Colleges of Education and CAILS led to the industrial action embarked upon by the institutions three months to the expiration of the Governor Ahmed's administration.

"Despite the industrial disharmony between the Unions and the then government, the said 7 months subventions and accreditation funds were not released to the Colleges until Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq assumed office.

"It is noteworthy to say that Governor Abdulrazaq, as at September 2019, completed the payment of all outstanding salary arrears owed the Colleges by the immediate past administration. Similarly, Governor Abdulrazaq has presently released accreditation funds to all the state-owned tertiary institutions. It is equal of note to state that His Excellency has also absorbed staffers of Demonstration schools of the Colleges who are owed 37-month salaries by the immediate past administration in the state. The general public should consider the claim by the former Governor as not only misleading but false."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Reuben Paraje     Chikanda     Baboko Primary School     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Ahman Pategi University     EFCC     Eleyele     Saheed Akinwumi     Abubakar Imam     Bello Bature     JUSUN     Nigeria Customs Service     Zainab Abass     Issa Oloruntogun     Ahman Pategi     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Labour Party     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Gambari     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Musa Yeketi     Ike Ekweremadu     Ubandawaki     Olusegun Adeniyi     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Millennium Development Goals     Old Oyo     Nurudeen Muhammed     Isaac Gbenle     RTEAN     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Salary     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Students Union Government     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Al-Ilory     Moses Afolayan     Salaudeen Oyewale     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Kwara Restoration Project     Laboratory-to-Product     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Alloy Chukwuemeka     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Clement Yomi Adeboye     KWIRS     Salami Adekunle     Ahmed Bayero     Overland     Olosi Of Osi     Noah Yusuf     General Hospital, Offa     Damilola Yusuf     Kwarareports.com     Erubu Oba Zubair     Dasuki Belgore     Aliyu Muyideen     Tayo Alao     Aisha Buhari     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     George Innih     Hassan A. Saliu     Saliu Mustapha     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Vasolar Consortium     Wahab Issa     Elerin Of Adanla Irese    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ayo Opadokun     Kunle Suleiman     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Toyin Sanusi     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Ilorin.Info     Manzuma     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     CCT     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Alaro     College Of Education     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Principal Private Secretary     Abatemi-Usman     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Bamidele Adegoke     Tunde Saad     First Lady     Mary Arinde     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Gamji Members Association     Elelu     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Bio Ibrahim     Oyin-Zubair     Amos Sayo     Tunji Ajanaku     Wahab Kunle Shittu     V.O. Abioye     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Al-Adaby     Muhammadu Buhari     Amuda Aluko     Jide Ashonibare     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Abubakar Ndakene     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     International Vocational Centre     Usman Alkali Baba     Maryam Nurudeen     Ramat Oganija     Olaosebikan     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Oke-Ogun     Public Holiday     Lanre Issa Onilu     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Oba Abdulrahim     Bola Shagaya     Popo-Igbonna     Shururat Olatinwo     Ope Saraki     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Bisi Kristien     Amoyo     John Olajide Adedipe     Labaeka     Shuaib Jawondo     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Lawal Olohungbebe     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Forgo Battery     Okiki     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Ita-Nmo Market