Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics and the Non-Academic Staff Union at the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State on Monday staged a protest over non implementation of the revised edition of 2013 scheme of service by the management of the institution.
The protesters numbering about 200 marched round the campus singing anti-management songs and threatening to ground all activities in the school until their entitlements were fully paid.
The protesters were armed with placards with various inscriptions such as: Stop victimizing our members; we will not relent until all our entitlements are paid; Pay all our arrears rained curses on the management for allegedly victimizing them by not implementing the new scheme.
They condemned the management led by the Rector, Mr. Patrick Hussein, for sticking to the 1979 obsolete scheme of service which they said were still being used for promotion, elevation, entitlements and careers of workers in the polytechnic.
The Chairman of SSANIP and NASU at the institution, Mr. Johnson Adekanola and Mr. George Akintola respectively claimed that other polytechnics in the South West had since implemented the 2013 scheme of service but wondered why the management of Federal Polytechnic, Ede refused to do the same.
Adekanola said, “In 2013, the FG rolled out the scheme of services that National Board for Technical Education should implement the scheme and other Federal Poly have implemented it and our colleagues at enjoying it but we are being denied this by the management of the Federal Polytechnoc, Ede.
“An indefinite strike will commence now and we are nominating the monitoring unit to deal with anybody that does not comply will the strike action.”
He said the rector was deliberately flouting the FG’s directive by refusing to implement the new scheme of service.
The National Secretary of SSANIP, Mr. Monday Jegede said the national body of the association was in support of the decision taken by the Ede chapter.
However, the Acting Rector, Arthur Aja, said the school suspended the CONTIS 15 migration because it has no means of funding it.
He also said that the FG has not given them the financial backing to implement the scheme, saying there was no way the management could source fund to implement it.
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