The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnic (SSANIP) and Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) of Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, on Friday locked out the Rector of the institution, Mrs Theresa Akande and other staff to protest non-payment of their allowances. The protesting workers commenced an indefinite industrial action on Friday May 8 to press home their demands, threatening to unseat the Rector for her alleged high-handedness.
According to Monday Jegede, the National Secretary of SSANIP, chief among the workers grievances are, the alleged `hard stance’ of the Rector on the payment of 60 months’ arrears of industrial Field trip allowance to the workers, depriving the workers of their duty and hazard/high risk allowances despite the directive by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) that they should be paid and the `incessant overseas trips’ of the management staff which he claimed that the Polytechnic was not financially buoyant to foot.
The Rector of the institution, Mrs Theresa Akande said the Federal Government had not approved the payment of the said allowances.
Akande said the Minister of Education had informed her that the Federal Government does not have the budget to pay 60 months arrears of the workers’ field trip allowance as demanded by them.
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