NASU Urges Tinubu against Arbitrary Salary Increase

Hammed Shittu in Ilorin

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has urged  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to engage in arbitrary salary increase.

The General Secretary of the union,  Comrade Peters Adeyemi stated this in Ilorin yesterday during a press conference at  union’s  ongoing  2023 quadrennial delegates conference/election of the universities and inter-university centres trade group council held at University of Ilorin.

The body rather advised the president to put in “place appropriate machinery to increase salaries measured by the present cost of living index in the country.”

The union  also called on the president to “offset the four months salaries owed its members by former president Muhammadu Buhari.”

The unionist said an arbitrary salary increment that is blind to the current realities in the country will only worsen the present economic situation.

“How do you rationalise a situation where 1,000 dollars when converted amounts to several millions of Nigeria.

“Things can work this way and there is a need to harmonise all the policies of the government and tailor them to impact the citizens,” he added.

Comrade Adeyemi said: “It is funny that the government will go ahead and remove subsidy without planning an appropriate economic solution.”

According to him, President Tinubu’s celebration of 100 days in office was full of promises amidst sufferings by Nigerians.

On the IPPIS payment platform,  Comrade Adeyemi said the system has been “extremely problematic with a whole lot of crises and it took us almost two years to be able to resolve a few of them.

“As we speak, the problem is yet to be fully addressed. We still experience delay in the payment of third parties deduction, half hazard salaries, lack of payment of increment as at when due and some of our allowances initially omitted that we fought for where spread beyond our members that are entitled to it.

“And UTAS which we designed to address the problem has proven to be very reliable and competent in resolving the issue, the government is shying away from adopting it yet they have not had the courage to improve on the abnormalities,” he noted.