OAU Management Issues ‘No Work, No Pay’ Threat‎ over Protest

Workers of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, have intensified their protest against non-payment of allowances
and alleged imposition of a Vice-Chancellor despite the threat by the
university’s authorities.

Also, students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, under the
aegis of the Concerned OAU Students, have appealed to all the staff
unions in the university to resume work in the interest of the
students of the university.

However, on Tuesday, the protesting workers appeared in red and black dresses,  playing anti-oppression songs, and vowing to stop the newly appointed VC from resuming work on
Friday.

The workers had begun their protest and strike on June 6 after taking the university authorities to
court.

THISDAY gathered that the protest became intensified when the University’s Governing Council announced Prof. Ayobami Salam as the new VC.

Also the counsel to the university denied the appointment of a new VC at the Osun State High Court hearing last Friday afternoon, the Governing Council on Saturday officially announced Salami.