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BIRNIN-KEBBI – Branch of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Abdullahi Fodio University of Science and Technology Aliero, AFUSTA, has decried the condition of hostels in the university and the non-payment of academic earned allowances by leadership of the University and the Kebbi State government.

The branch Chairman of the Union, Dr Isah Musa Fakai, in a statement on Tuesday stated that the Union have made frantic efforts to save the University from eminent collapse through series of engagements with the leadership of the University, ministry for higher education including ASUU zonal branch Sokoto to iron out grey areas and solve the lingering crisis.

Fakai lamented that such engagements did not yield any positive results as their demands remains unattended too by Kebbi State government.

According to him, the state government have yet to pay academic earned allowances from 2021 to date, no arrears of minimum wage consequential adjustment, no payments of yearly increments and arrears for same.

More worrisome, he said is the condition of students hostels in the university which is so grossly inadequate leading to avoidable overcrowding in the University.

He appealed to Kebbi state government and well meaning people of Kebbi state to wade in to salvage the situations and to save the once leading university in northwest by meeting the demands of the union he said.

Isah maintained that the Union may take further action if nothing is done which include industrial action in the near future, while commending the state for past intervention, the union demands fast action to avert any showdown with Kebbi government.