The Academic Union of Universities (ASUU), has raised the
alarm over the incomplete payment of check-off dues by the federal government.
Check-off dues refer to the money deducted from staff
salaries by the employer and paid as membership fees to the union or
organisation representing the workers.
The federal government deducts check-off dues from the
salaries of all lecturers of federal universities as the fee for their
membership in ASUU.
The dues are usually remitted to ASUU’s account after
deduction from members’ salaries.
TheCable reports that the federal government only released
half of the deducted dues to the union for the month of November.
Christian Opata, chairman of ASUU at the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), confirmed the development on Monday.
“It’s true. Well, I don’t have the records of all the
universities, but judging by my own university (UNN), what we get as check-off
dues do not reflect the number of academic staff we have in the university,”
Opata said.
“That happened even
before Congress of University Academics (CONUA), that’s the situation.”
When asked about the particular month the check-off dues
were not fully paid, he said: “It has been like that in my own university, let
me say for the past six to seven months. In fact, since IPPIS started”.
When contacted, Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU president, said he would revert after reaching out to the union’s branches.
“I need to get information on that from the branches. When I
do that, I’ll let you know,” he said.
The ministry of labour and employment had earlier attributed
the withheld dues to the failure of ASUU to submit its audit reports as
required.
Lecturers under ASUU have been at loggerheads with the
government since the strike ended, over non-payment of their salaries for the
period the strike lasted.
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