FG won’t pay salaries of staff schools in tertiary institutions

06:55 02/07/2015 Abuja - The National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) on Wednesday declared that the Federal Government would not pay salaries of staff schools in the nation’s tertiary institutions.
The Executive Chairman of the Commission, Chief Richard Egbule, made this known at a news briefing in Abuja.
The University workers under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) had threaten to embark on strike for non-funding of staff schools by the Federal Government.
Egbule said the proposed strike action by SSANU was uncalled for as government was not responsible for the funding of staff schools in higher institutions.
He said that some government-owned tertiary institutions had transferred the funding of staff schools established by them to government treasury.
This, he said, had contributed to the bloating of the recurrent cost of federal government budget.
Egbule said that the activities of some of the staff schools had resulted in the additional cost to government amounting to N4 billion annually.
He said that in a bid to find out the state of the staff schools, the commission had in 2013 carried out a survey on their operations.
Egbule said that this was done with a view to generating information on the funding and payment of salaries.
He said that the study revealed that 48 of the tertiary institutions did not have staff schools, while 21 funded their staff schools from their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
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He said 51 of the institutions, however, funded their staff schools from the Federal Treasury.
Egbule said that the schools that funded their staff schools from the federal treasury had devised means of including the staff list of such schools as part of the tertiary institutions’ authentic staff.
He said the staff of such schools were wrongly placed on the salary s