Ondo lecturers threaten to extend warning strike
They said the warning strike would be extended by another four weeks.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Chairman and the Secretary of the union in the school, Adetokunboh Adepoju and Joel Edafe respectively.
They vowed not to resume academic activities until all national and local issues were resolved.
The statement said Colleges of Education system in the country has suffered abandonment by the Federal Government.
It said several pleas for urgent revamp of facilities and recruitment of adequate quality and quantity of staff have yielded no result.
According to the statement, “This neglect has gradually culminated in aggravated decay of infrastructures in the Colleges of Education System. Furthermore, based on poor conditions of service, the sector has also witnessed monumental academic staff attrition without significant effort by Government for their replacement.
“The resultant gross deficit of college academic staff and the backlash effect on the quality and quantity of teachers produced by the Colleges of Education system is best imagined.”
“This has left our Union, having exhausted all other avenues of gaining the Government’s attention, with no other option than to embark on this total warning strike in the face of the Government’s crass insensitivity.
“Some of the lingering issues that called for the industrial action include the obnoxious tax regime on staff consolidated salary which includes allowances as against basic salary, and capturing in the annual budget the Peculiar Earned Allowance.
“Non-release of N15billion approved, out of the N456,599,691,914.18 revitalization fund recommended, for both Federal and State Colleges of Education contrary to repeated promises by the Federal Government;
non – implementation of the consequential effect of the implementation of CONTISS15 on Lower Cadre (a.k.a. Migration) since 2018;
“Poor funding of Colleges of Education and poor conditions across state-owned Colleges of Education especially in Ogun, Kwara, Abia, Kogi, Zamfara, Yobe, and the Edo States; and federal Government’s recalcitrant insistence on the satanic IPPIS that does not take into account the peculiarity of the College of Education system as against the more reliable alternative of UTAS.”
They also listed other local issues already communicated to the College Management to include, four-month salary arrears for 2019 recruited academic staff; and Responsibility Allowances for HODs, and Dean’s/Directors, among others.
The union however said that “in the light of the foregoing, our Chapter, will not resume academic activities until all national and local issues are resolved”
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