BinghamVarsity Staff Down Tools Over Non Payment Of Salaries

Kuni Tyessi,

Academic and non-academic staff members of Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa state, have excused themselves from their duty posts as a result of several months unpaid salaries and other allowances, to press home their demands.

The faith-based institution owned by the Evangelical Church Winning All, formerly Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA), has continued to owe its staff including those of essential duties such as cleaners and security personnel 8 months salary with no payment date in sight.

Investigations have revealed that students of the department of Medicine who pay as much as over one million as tuition are the only set of students receiving lectures in the ivory tower from some few lecturers who have volunteered to teach, despite the non-payment of allowances.

Staff and students who spoke with THISDAY on condition of anonymity, revealed that the school management, in order to hide its inefficiency, had directed them to go home after the yuletide celebrations on the grounds that male and female hostels would be renovatedas a result of dilapidation from heavy rainstorm and exposure to other elements. However, to their dismay, the hostels were unattended to when they were requested to resume.

The students expressed regret that they have just been left to their fate and have become wanderers within the school premises, and that social amenities and infrastructure have completely broken down with malfunctioning heaters and showers as well as the generating set hardly been powered to provide light for reading at night.

Two academic members of staff who accepted to speak with THISDAY on telephone, had accused the Vice Chancellor, Proffesor Samuel Leonard KursimFwa of high-handedness and a leader that has become inconsiderate to the working conditions of staff as well as their welfare.

According to them, “the school management told us to go home after the Christmas break and promised that some parts of the school, especially the hostels would be renovated. We left and came back to meet everything just as we had left them.”