Joint unions in the College of Education Akwanga, Nasarawa state, Tuesday called on the state government to urgently address the backlog of demands bordering on welfare before the resumption of academic session or risk another industrial action.
Chairman of the joint unions in the college, Comrade Edward Daniel, made the call at a news briefing in Akwanga, Akwanga local government area of the state.
He said the call was necessary following the inability of the state government to conduct promotion and annual increments of salaries since 2015.
Daniel stated that the college was grossly under staffed given the ratio which is put at one academic staff to eight hundred students as against the NCCE standard which is one staff to 30 students. They stressed the need for an urgent step to change the trend.
He also called for the establishment of a gratuity scheme in the college with a view to offsetting the over N1billion unpaid entitlements of retired and deceased staff of the college.
The chairman also called on Governor Abdullahi Sule to make public the outcome of the investigative panel set up in February this year to look into alleged financial impropriety and other misconduct by the suspended management of the college to pave way for progress, development and tranquility.
