By Steve Oni, Ilorin
Staff of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin have protested the alleged non payment of their six months salary arrears by the management.
The institution’s workers staged a peaceful demonstration to Government House, Ilorin to register their displeasure over the development.
However,the Provost of the
College, Dr Yusuf AbdulRaheem blamed the non payment of the workers’ arrears on the non receipt of subventions for six months from the state government.
He said the state government is owing the institution N252 million , being six months of unremitted subventions .
AbdulRaheem said paucity of funds occasioned by the non release of subventions to the institution had incapacitated it from meeting its obligations to its workers.
He said the management could no longer meet with the high demands of the College from the paltry sums accruing to it from internally generated revenue.
The provost described the staff protest as unfortunate, attributing it to the dwindled financial state of the College which had made payments of salary arrears impossible.
He appealed to the state government to declare a state of emergency in the education sector as a way of combating the problems in the sector.
”The declaration of the state of emergency in the state Education sector will bring extra budgetary allocation that will cater for all the problems confronting the sector,” he said.
Reacting to the workers protest, the state Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Ustaz Abdullahi Alikinla, said the state government was owing the College only four months subventions, totalling N202 million.
He attributed the state government’s indebtedness to the institution to the dwindling allocations from the federation account.
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