Osun assembly inaugurates c’ttee to probe crisis at varsity

Committee
By Victor Adeoti
Osogbo, March 27, 2018 (NAN) The Osun House of Assembly has inaugurated a 15-man ad hoc committee to investigate the crisis between the management and  Non-Academic Staff Union of the state-owned university.

The assembly also directed the committee to investigate the accounts  of the institution since  2015.

The Speaker of the assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam, inaugurated the committee in Osogbo on Tuesday  after a closed door meeting with the management and the leadership of the union in his office.

Salaam directed the committee to look into the incessant strike by the non-teaching staff of the institution and report back to the assembly in two weeks.

He said the House Committee Chairman on Public Account, Mr Rasheed Afolabi,  would  head  the committee.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the non-teaching staff of the university under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) had on March 5 embarked on indefinite strike over non-payment of their earned allowance among other demands.

Also speaking, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Labo Poopola, thanked the assembly for its timely intervention, saying that the institution had been witnessing different crises in the last five years.

He expressed optimism that  with the intervention of the assembly, there would be peace in the university.

The Chairman of the university’s JAC, Mr Olalekan Adiat,  said he was optimistic that the assembly would do the needful in ensuring peace in the institution.

In his remarks, Mr Jacob Adekomi, the Chairman of  the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Osun, described the inauguration of the committee as a good move to usher peace into the  university.

Adekomi expressed confidence  in the ability of the assembly to ensure peace in the university. (NAN)
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(Edited by Remi Koleoso/Mufutau Ojo)