NO fewer than 60 teachers of the University of Ibadan Staff School, Ibadan, yesterday staged a peaceful protest to demand for their immediate reinstatement on the institution’s payroll.
The peaceful protest was led by the Chairman, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), UI chapter, Comrade Wale Akinremi and his Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) counterpart, Comrade Malachi Etim.
The union leaders explained that the protest was meant to call the attention of the institution’s management to what the teachers have been going through in the last two years since the institution removed them from its payroll.
Bearing placards with various inscriptions, the teachers called on the management to reinstate them without further delay.
The sombre-looking teachers said in the last two years, their career, welfare and future had been decimated and toyed with despite an existing court ruling vindicating them.
Narrating their ordeal, the teachers lamented that they have been unable to carry out their parental responsibilities in their individual families owing to the incapacitation caused by the “illegal” removal of their names on the institution’s payroll.
Some of the placards read: “UI staff school teachers sign monthly salary returns”, “Yet no pay slips, no records, we demand explanation”, “Reinstate UI staff school teachers now”, “UI management reinstate staff school teachers into the payroll now!” and “UI staff school teachers receive the Federal Government’s counterpart funding of the contributory pension scheme”, among others.
The chairman, Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of the school, Mr. Emmanuel Adeleye and other union executives also joined the protesting staff.
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