Osun Lecturers Sit on the Floor to Protest Unpaid Salaries (Photo)

 

The Osun state lecturers have stormed the Osun State House of Assembly to protest non-payment of their salaries for the past eight months.

 

It should be recalled that the lecturers have been on strike for the past three months with no concrete action by the state government to get them back to work. The protesting lecturers were led by leaders of the body including Chairman, Lasisi Jimoh; Secretary Olusegun Lana and Public Relations Officer, Dotun Omisore to voice out their pains.

 

They stormed the Osun state House of Assembly with placards with various inscriptions, were chanting, ‘Save our Souls’, ‘Enough is Enough’, ‘Pay our Salaries’ and ‘We Reject Half Salaries’, sang anti-government songs. They sat on the bare floor and activties at the house have been hampered. They also rejected the plan of the state government to pay half salaries while saying they would not submit themselves to fresh screening directed by the government.

The Chief Whip of the House of Assembly, Mr. Folorunsho Bamisayemi, while addressing the protesters appealed to them to exercise patience, saying efforts were underway to ensure their demands were met.

However, the Speaker, Mr. Najeem Salam, after spending some minutes with the protesters walked out on them.

The Secretary of the council, who spoke with correspondents, said lecturers had been on strike for the past months without government seeking to negotiate with them.

Lana said, “We came to the House of Assembly to submit Save Our Souls letter. The protest went well until the Speaker walked out on us.
” The state government has not been remitting pension deductions from our salaries to our Pension Fund Administrators, this is against the law. The deductions are supposed to be remitted seven days after salaries are paid but this is not happening.”