Some educational and non-academic workers members of the Kaduna State College have decried the non-payment of their salaries.
The employees stated they’d but to obtain any wage since they have been employed three years in the past as they have been excluded from the state’s payroll.
In response to them, this was primarily due to the college’s incapability to be financially autonomous following the mixing of the college beneath the workplace of the state Head of Service throughout the administration of a former governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai.
A number of the staff who spoke with our correspondent beneath anonymity for worry of being victimised, stated they’d additionally been denied entry to the state medical health insurance scheme, as newly employed staff couldn’t be enrolled within the scheme with out their printed month-to-month pay slips.
One in every of them, who claimed he was owed for 22 months, stated, “After I got here again, after the mandatory documentation, I used to be upgraded to (the place) assistant lecturer and confirmed after staying two years however thus far, I haven’t been paid.
“The folks I travelled with have been enrolled into the fee system in February this yr whereas my colleagues and I’ve not been enrolled.
“It has been laborious as a result of as a tutorial workers (member), you might be working and you then see your colleagues getting (credit score) alerts whereas you aren’t getting something. It’s demoralising and issues are very laborious,” the employee added.
One other affected employee stated, “I used to be given an appointment in September final yr (2023). Three months later, we got a variation kind to fill out. It was a wage kind that captured all our particulars.
“We thought that by December (2023), we’d see our wage however after the primary quarter of 2023 and nothing, we started following up with the State Home.”
When contacted, the state Head of Service, Hajia Habiba Shekarau, instructed our correspondent to talk with the administration of the college.
“Please speak to KASU as a result of KASU is an autonomous physique,” she stated.
Nonetheless, the Public Relations Officer of the college, Adamu Bargo, stated the college didn’t have complete autonomy as a result of the salaries have been paid by the state authorities and never the college.
“We urge them to train persistence because the college is on high of the matter,” he added.