The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Wednesday warned the vice

chancellors of Nigerian. Universities, especially that of Ilorin not to share the N986.7 million earned allowance disbursed to it by the Federal Government until strike is over.

The Zonal Coordinator of ASUU Ilorin Zone, Dr Ayan Adeleke while speaking in Ibadan,  said the authentic ASUU chairman of UNILORIN Dr. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju had already conveyed the position of the Union to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor AbdulGaniyu Ambali, that the struggle for funding, was still ongoing.

He warned that Universities should not betray the struggle by disbursing the earned allowances until the struggle is over.It was gathered that workers in the University of Ilorin early today engaged the University Management over modalities for sharing of the University’s share of the N30 billion disbursed to the Universities by the Federal Government.

Adeleke who denounced the Professor Wahab Egbewole-led  faction added that “the group had been declared illegal by the National Industrial Court, adding that whatever they are doing is illegal.”

Also speaking Dr Segun Ajiboye, Chairman of ASUU in the University of Ibadan said “it is the height of immorality for these fellows in Ilorin to be squabbling over the proceeds of a struggle that they did not participate in.” While saying that ASUU strike was beyond the issue of earned allowances, Ajiboye said the union was committed to full revatilization of the public university system and not the peanut of earned allowances.

“Ironically, all this is going on at a time that ASUU and the Federal Government are still engaged in a bitter face off over the quantum of funds to be released to the universities as capital grant and as payment for earned allowances."To make matters worse, University of Ilorin workers have repeatedly shunned any strike action embarked upon by their Union, as their leaders, especially factional leader of ASUU in UNILORIN, Professor Egbewole, had publicly denounced ASUU for the strike action that eventually forced government to release some of the disputed funds," he said.

According to him,  it is therefore ironical that the lecturers of the University of Ilorin who were not part of the struggle are the ones now squabbling over the released funds.

In a circular titled  “A Departure from our Collective Agreement” which was made available to the press, the Professor Wahab Egbewole faction informed academic staff that: “From the grave vine (sic) we learnt on Monday 30th September, that Bursary was planning to pay 75 per cent instead of 100 per cent of our collectively Agreement. “

The release dated 3rd October, 2013 also warned that “Our position remained

uncompromised, and that  we are not ready to accept partial payment of any of those allowances, but rather the full payment of the allowances for which