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Pay 15 of 30-month salary you owed us or we won’t resume – TASCE staff tells Ogun govt

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The Coalition of Tai Solarin College of Education Staff (COTAS) has said that it would not allow the management of the institution to resume their official duties if their salaries and other benefits were not paid.

The coalition chairman, Comrade Daniel Aborisade, who dropped the hint at the Ogun State House of Assembly Complex in Abeokuta, said they were at the complex on the invitation of the House of Assembly Committee on Education, Science and Technology.

He disclosed that the invitation was apt, but that the coalition was perturbed at the stance of the committee, saying that the committee asked them to allow peace to rain in the institution despite the fact that they were being owed 30 months’ salary, 48 months arrears, stressing that the summation of both amounts to 54 months’ salary.

Aborisade noted that the only way the coalition would allow normal academic activity to return to the institution was for the state government to pay at least 15 months out of the 30 months being owed.

“As human beings, we know the money was not owed in a day, in our own way of allowing peace to reign, let the state government pay us at least half of the 30 months they owe us, and then normal academic activity can resume, its 15 months or nothing,” he said.

Aborisade added that the coalition had locked the management out of the campus, saying that the management had been told to see to the payment of their unpaid salaries.

“We have locked the provost and the bursar out to go and get our money and until they get a substantial part of our money paid, they won’t be allowed in, we would only take 15 months for academic activities to commence, noting less,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Provost of the College, Lukmon Adeola Kiadese, has appealed to the coalition to sheathe their sword and embrace peace, so as to jointly move the college to the greater height.

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