The Nigerian Universities’ Pensioners Association (NUPA), Ekiti State University (EKSU) chapter, has raised the alarm over unpaid 15 years gratuity arrears amounting to N1.5 billion.
The retirees appealed to Governor Kayode Fayemi and EKSU management to persuade the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU), EKSU chapter to suspend its industrial action for swift payment of their five months’ pension arrears.
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Addressing newsmen in Ado Ekiti yesterday, the chairman of NUPA EKSU, Chief Samuel Akinwale, said it was disturbing for the university to withhold their pensions since May 2022 due to ASUU’s strike.
He appealed to the governor to increase their monthly subvention to the university and urged the vice chancellor, Prof. Eddy Olanipekun, to embark on aggressive internally generated revenue drives to fund the institution.
Akinwale said, “Pensioners are not on strike, but in retirement and should not be made to bear undue punishment because a particular union is on strike.
“We want to appeal to the state government who owns EKSU to direct the striking lecturers to call off their strike, so that life will return to that university.
“We are stating this because ASUU in several states nationwide have called off their strike while ASUU in some states universities didn’t participate in the strike at all, including Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere Ekiti.”
