The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) says the non-payment of salaries of some polytechnics workers by some state governments was “insensitive and wicked.”
The union said this in a communique signed by its National President, Adebanjo Ogunsipe and issued at the end of the quarterly meeting of the union’s General Executive Council, on Thursday, in Abuja.
The union also expressed concern over what it described persistent refusal of many state governments to implement the new minimum wage.
It identified some of the polytechnics that were being owed salaries, to include Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo (11 months’ unpaid salaries) and the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun (30 months’ unpaid half salaries).
Others thers as: College of Technology, Esa-Oke in Osun (30 months unpaid half salaries) and Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Abia (28 months’ unpaid salaries), among others.
The union said the Higher National Diploma (HND) and Bachelor’s Degree (BSc.) dichotomy bill when signed into law enhance the growth and development of polytechnic education in the country.
The Higher National Diploma (HND) and Bachelor’s Degree (BSc.) dichotomy bill was recently passed by the National Assembly.
“Council wishes to commend the National Assembly for painstakingly seeing the HND/BSc. dichotomy Bill, to a logical conclusion, while it is currently before the president of the country, awaiting his assent,” the statement said.
