The Academic Staff Union of University, (ASUU) Gombe State University yesterday gave two-week ultimatum for Governor Inuwa Yahaya to address salient pending issues between the academic Staff of the university and the state government.
ASUU, in a resolution after its congress in Gombe, frowned at the failure of the university administration to address the issues affecting the well being of its members which is currently affecting the morale of academic staff in the university.
“Morale of staff has been on the decline due to failure of the university to address the welfare issues of staff amidst the socio economic challenges in the country,” said the ASUU chairman, Suleiman Salihu Jauro.
In the resolution jointly signed by Jauro and his secretary, Muhammad S Muhammad, ASUU said the varsity administration has failed to pay the accumulated Earned Academic Allowance, EAA front 2015/2016 session till date.
The academic staff is asking the state government and the university administration for the payment of areas of 2020, 2021 and 2022 promotion, allowances to lecturers teaching General Studies courses and staff engaged in teaching part-time programmes.
Other demands of the union include non-implementation of 2022 promotion for academic staff on the professorial cadre, non-implementation of 2023 promotion for academic staff, non-implementation of new salary table for academic staff, non-payment of postgraduate allowance for supervision, Internal examination etc and non-implementation/non-payment of arrears of consequential adjustment in minimum wage to 30,000 effective from April 2019.
Consequently, the Congress unanimously resolved to give the university a time frame of two weeks from yesterday within which to address the above listed issues.
The union warned: ” if these issues remain unaddressed at the expiration of the time frame, the union will not hesitate to consider other legitimate options available to it to pursue it’s demands.”
