Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola is pulling some stunts on the workers in the state, a move that is becoming quite worrisome.

A lecturer in a tertiary institution in Osun State (name withheld) reportedly collapsed inside a bank located within the school’s premises after he discovered there was an error in his pay.

According to witnesses, the lecturer fainted after he discovered that the government had credited his account with N150 only — instead of N150,000.

The money was supposed to be 50 percent of his February salary.

The lecturer, who is a post-graduate student at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) lamented, after being resuscitated by the bank’s officials, that the money paid into hia account could not even transport him to Akure, where he was scheduled to write an examination.

He said also had some school fees to pay and planned to use his salary to take care of that.

This seems to be the new thing for institution workers now as he is not the only one to experience such disparity.

Reports say staff members of four tertiary institutions in the state – Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke; Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and colleges of education in Ilesa and Ila-Oragun have also expressed concern over disparities in the payment of their salaries since November 2014.

A lecturer in the Department of Accounting in one of the schools lamented that his gross salary and net pay were N210,000 and N140,000, respectively, but he only received the sum of N260 as his February salary.

A management staff of the institution, whose salary is about N400,000, was also said to have received N12,000 for the same month.

Many teaching and non-teaching staff members of the institutions have criticised the state government for what they called the abnormalities being witnessed in the payment of their outstanding salaries.

It was also alleged that monies deducted by the state government from workers’ salaries for the purpose of schemes like the cooperative society had not been remitted since August 2014.

A worker at one of the institutions disclosed that he collected the sum of N30,000 in December, N58,000 in January, while he received N125 as his take-home for the month of February.

He said fuelling his car from Ilesa to Esa-Oke had become a problem, just as he had been unable to collect his children’s report sheets from a private school in Ilesa because he could not pay their tuition.

The Public Relations Officer of the academic staff union of state-owned institutions, and ASUP chairman of the state polytechnic, Iree,  Dotun Omisore, in an interview confirmed the ordeal of the lecturer who fainted and also condemned the abnormalities and irregularities in the payment of salaries of workers.

“We will not call off our strike until all our salaries and deductions are paid by the state government,” he said.

Omisore warned that the deduction of workers’ contributions to the contributory pension scheme by the state government since about 36 months ago allegedly without remittance to the pension managers must also stop.

“If they cannot account for the one they have deducted, they should stop further deductions. Our pension is our hope and future. After 30 or 35 years in service, what are we expected to collect if the government is not remitting it?” he asked.