Yola – The Adamawa Government says it will take over the payment of salaries of staff of the State University (ADSU), Mubi.
Mr Silas Sanga, the state Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing newsmen after the State Executive Council meeting in Yola.
Sanga assured that the government would pay all arrears owed to workers in the university soon.
He said that the state government would continue with the payment of the university salaries pending when the modalities on the proper funding were put in place by the state government.
According to him, the five per cent proceeds from the Local Government/State joint account were not remitted.
He said that the discussion which was adopted by the council was sequel to the recommendation by the visitation panel on the university.
He regretted why the local ASUU reneged on its earlier agreement to suspend their strike after its earlier agreement.
The commissioner said that the committee, while on its assignment, held discussions with various stakeholders in the university and got their views over the problems facing the institution.
NAN recalls that the ADSU ASUU branch in Mubi had embark on indefinite strike due to non-payment of salaries and disciplinary action by the university authorities against its members, among others.
NAN also recalls that the state government had constituted a visitation panel to wade into crisis rocking the institution with the view to finding lasting solution to the problems.
Dr Umar Bindir, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), had earlier said that the council adopted a memo by the Ministry of Finance on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) enhancement.
Bindir said that the mechanism would improve the IGR from its monthly N250 million to N800 million in the 2017 budget.
He stressed the need to improve the IGR in order to supplement the shortfall from the federal allocation to the state.