•Protest unpaid salary
Academic activities were paralysed yesterday at The Polytechnic, Ibadan as members of the Academic staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) embarked on an indefinite strike to protest non-payment of five months’ salary.
Before the union announced the beginning of the strike, the workers went round in procession to sensitise members, following the state government’s inability to pay outstanding salaries.
The ASUP Secretary, Comrade Akande Adekunle, told reporters that members were hungry because the government failed to pay their five months’ salary.
Adekunle, who urged the government to pay their salary arrears, noted that ASUP members had been experiencing irregularity in the payment of their salaries since last year.
Efforts to speak with the institution’s spokesman, Adewole Soladoye, proved abortive.
Despite the peaceful protest by ASUP members, the Students’ Union Government (SUG) has promised to revive the school’s radio station, which it said would create employment opportunities.
The new SUG President, Joseph Esho, addressing reporters yesterday at the swearing-in, said the station was one of the innovations the SUG planned to bring into the institution.