The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics, SSANIP, of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, RUGIPO, said they lost 50 members over irregular payment of salaries.

The unions stated this after a joint meeting at the institution on Tuesday. Speaking to newsmen after the meeting of SSANIP, Mr Nafiu Okoro said irregular salary payments to the unions’ members had caused a lot of havoc to the lives of workers in the polytechnic.

Okoro explained that over 10 months’ workers’ salaries were being owed by the institution’s management.“All non-teaching staff, comprising NASU and SSANIP, agreed that the government should pay all our outstanding salaries running over 10 months.

“That N35,000 being paid to workers as palliatives in Ondo State should be extended to institutions. Also, management should pay all the deductions of our cooperative societies.

These form parts of our resolutions.“The situation here is pathetic. I want to inform you that we have lost over 50 staff members as a result of irregularities in salary payments since a few years ago. In this year, three staff members died on the same day,” he stated.