Unpaid salaries: Lecturers go on hunger strike

In from Ali Smart …
Staff members of the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) have embarked on hunger strike to press home their demand for unpaid four month salary arrears by the state government.
They also complained about the non-release of N350million promised by the state government “for the NUC schedule accreditation visit as well as the reduction in tax paid by the university workers.’’
The chairman of CRUTECH branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Stephen Ochang told reporters that the union at its congress held in Calabar decided to embark on the action to draw government’s attention to their plight.

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According to him, “Congress reviewed the situation in the Branch and condemned in very strong terms the nonpayment of salaries in the university for four months against the backdrop that civil/public servants have been paid up to date.”

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