The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof. Isaac Azuzu has drawn the ire of the staff of the institution for allegedly victimizing them .
The angry workers were reported to have heightened tension on the campus as they vowed that the embattled Vice- Chancellor must leave.
In the early hour of today, they blocked the Ado-Lokoja-Abuja federal highway while demonstrating.
Mr. Ojo Foluso, a staff of the school lamented that the management of the school was cheating them, adding that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has not responded to their request for probe.
Foluso alleged that VC would return N400 million to the Federal Ministry of Education as unspent budget for 2014 this December when workers were languishing in suffering.
One of the academic staff, a PhD holder, who spoke with journalists under condition of anonymity because there had yet to be a union in the institution alleged that the VC and the bursar had been denying the staff relocation and hazard allowances.
He said, “No to anti-transformational agenda. Oye/Ido/Osi axis is volatile politically in the history of the country, but we are for President Jonathan. That is why we want him to wade into this matter without delay.
“Under normal circumstances, each senior staff ought to receive between N1.2m to N1.5 million as relocation allowance as introduced by the federal government in 2007. But we were only paid N252,000 in three installments when our agitations were becoming so deafening.
“To end all these problems, we call on the university to implement the recommendations of the Prof Aganga-committee which stated that tax must no longer be based on consolidation but be worked based on basic salaries of all workers and the excess deductions must be refunded to all workers without delay.
“Again, the National Housing Scheme which the management has mandated should be made optional while all allowances being paid in Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State and in Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State and other Federal Universities established in 2011 should be paid without delay.”
The university was among the nine federal universities established by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.
