The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) chapter has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike over non-payment of 13 salaries and allowances.

The union called on the governors of the owners states. Governors Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola of Oyo and Osun States respectively to pay the outstanding 13-months salaries owed workers of the Institution without further delay.

The academic union claimed that staffs of the institution were finding it difficult to survive while nobody was willing to loan money to them to meet their basic needs. LAUTECH’s ASUU chairman. Dr Oyebamiji Oyegoke stated this while speaking to newsmen in Ibadan yesterday saying that the institution workers were facing untold hardship due to what he called “abdicating their responsibilities culminating in workers being owed 13 months salaries.

” The union boss said the call became imperative in view of the bail-out being granted to states by President Mohammadu Buhari which Oyo State is a beneficiary.

While calling for judicious utilization of the funds to boost the life chances of the workers, Dr Oyegoke demanded regular payment of salary from monthly governmental subventions and not from the internally generated revenue which is supposed to be used for other welfare and development projects.

Oyegoke stated that the "two‎ owner states jointly owe the university workers 13-month salaries forcing the university to keep the system running via financial interventions"

The union leader who lamented that there had been no visible projects on the campus in the last five years, Oyebamiji said the projects visible on the campus were products of ASUU struggles and TETFUND interventions‎. Warning of imminent industrial disharmony between the workers and the governments of the two owner-states,

ASUU wondered whether Governors Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola ‎ forgot their promise to "spend the necessary monies on LAUTECH to turn it into a model university among its peers."

According to ASUU, the oyo and Osun governments have abdicated their responsibilities of providing funding as expected for the university whether capital or recurrent. While frowning at the two governors, ASUU called for a sustained response towards capital projects in the university while asking for definite payment of owed salaries as well as the approval of payment of Academic Earned Allowances to the deserving workers.