The Taraba State University Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has declared a total, indefinite and comprehensive strike action.
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This is happening after the permission by the ASUU National to the State branch to go ahead with the strike action to ensure their demands are met.
Reasons for the strike action as disclosed by the Union, are, the State government’s failure to pay earned academic allowances, promotion arrears, as well as unsettled staff pension and gratuity scheme.
A press statement by Bala Dan-Abu, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, says:
The outgoing administration of his excellency, arc Darius Dickson Ishaku, executive governor of Taraba state, is not owing any group of workers in the state monthly salaries and, therefore, will not be leaving behind any burden arising from unpaid emoluments for the in-coming administration.
This clarification became necessary following a press statement issued recently on behalf of the in-coming administration of Lt Col Agbu Kefas, the governor-elect which contained a promise to pay salary arrears in its first 100 days.
This veiled accusation is wrong and unnecessary. The Ishaku administration never toyed with the welfare of workers in its eight years of stewardship in the state. It had consistently paid their salaries since it assumed office in 2015, most of the time before the end of every month.
We find this so-called promise to pay outstanding salary arrears made on behalf of the governor-elect not only misplaced but also misleading.
It is also surprising coming from an in-coming administration widely known and regarded to be an offspring of the the present government of his excellency, arc Darius Ishaku.
We think we needed to set the records straight, hence this rebuttal.
