The Educational Employees Union of Universities, Benue State College chapter, has described the withholding of its members’ wage as a plan to make Christmas a bleak one for its members.
ASUU in Benue State College said this in a press release issued and signed by the chairman and secretary of the union, Kwaghfam Tarnongo and Terrumun Gajir respectively. A duplicate was made obtainable to newsmen in Makurdi on Thursday.
Will probably be recalled that the administration of the College had withheld the November wage of the educational workers union for not submitting the outcomes of the 2020/2021 tutorial session.
The union, within the assertion, famous that the discharge of outcomes was a course of and never an occasion. It said that the departmental board is already sitting to think about the submitted end result.
Based on the assertion, “The discharge of outcomes is a course of and never an occasion. The method begins with the submission of scores as graded by particular person lecturers to their respective Departments.
“The Departmental Boards now sit to think about the submitted outcomes, and accepted outcomes are forwarded to the Colleges. School Boards then meet to think about these outcomes and, on approval, the outcomes are forwarded to the College Senate, which is the very best decision-making organ of the College on tutorial issues.
“The outcomes are lastly launched when the Senate meets, considers, and approves. It have to be identified at this level that, as soon as particular person lecturers submit scores within the programs taught by them to their respective departments, their work is completed with reference to the discharge of outcomes.
“The remaining means of consideration and approval for such outcomes by Departmental Boards, School Boards, and the College Senate are inside the purview of the system as managed by the College Administration and NOT that of lecturers anymore.”
The union described the suspension of their wage by the administration as ‘saddening,’ saying, ‘the College Administration has chosen to perpetrate this ILLEGALITY on this yuletide season when, for the primary time in a few years, public servants have been paid in good time earlier than Christmas.’