Breaking News:Anambra Varsity Goes Bankrupt , Could Not pay Salary for 3 months, Borrows, Owes years of Tax

Agony is the best statement to qualify the suffering of staffers of the Anambra state University named after Ojukwu. For two months now running their families have not eaten good food like the staffers of Paul University, Awka.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof Fidelis Okafor has gone cap in hand begging Governor Willie Obiano to reduce some unnecessary expenses and give them more subvention as he is suffering much running the institution empty handed.  The University borrowed over N2.5 Million last year to pay salary and could not pay its taxes to the state for several years now, reports www.odogwublog.com exclusively.

www.odogwublog.com reports that the Vice Chancellor, Anambra State University (now Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Unuversity), Uli, Prof. Fidelis Okafor has appealed to the state government to increase its financial support to the university with a view to addressing their myriads of needs.

Prof. Okafor, who stated this in an exclusive interview in his office, explained that the ninety million naira (90,000,000) subvention accruing to the institution from the state government purse is far cry to paying remunerations of it staffers in the three campuses which amount to over 230,000,000, excluding miscellaneous expenses per month.

This according to the Vice Chancellor was among the reason their October and November salaries are yet unpaid,

Prof. Okafor, while noting that states like Imo pays 230,000,000 naira subvention to its university despite that its indigent students enjoy free education, Ebonyi N260,000,000; Plateau State pays 100% subvention, even as Kogi pays salaries of it staffers through electronic payment system; lamented that the ANSU’s major source of IGR and means of paying workers were the students duration fees of N55,000 drawn from N120,000 been paid by each student per session.

He explained out of N120,000 levies the students pay per session, N55,000 is actual duration fees which goes directly to the institution purse and used for payment of salaries and miscellaneous expenses such as purchasing of fuels, and other, while remaining money are for sundry levies such as Student Union Government (SUG), Laboratories, Identity Cards, to mention a few.

The Academics, who further added the poor income forced them to obtain loans of 2.5 million naira last year in order to pay their workers salaries, praised the ex-governor, Chief Peter Obi for later redeeming the loan, urged his staff to be patient as he was very much confident that the government of Chief Willie Obiano would soon address the impasse hampering the university education.

However, the Professor noted that they have started running diploma programmes on Music and some management courses in order to raise their Internally Generated Revenue, even as he implored the visitation panel the state government constituted some months back to look into the institution’s needs and report back to the government to intensify its efforts so as to enable the governor take prompt action where necessary.

On the possibility of relocating the university from its temporary site at Uli to Igbariam campus, Prof. Okafor averred that the state legislatures are studying the law establishing the institution with a view to amending it, hence it lays on the hands of the both the state executive and legislative arm.

If Obiano does nothing within the remaining weeks , it means the staffers of the University would go home for Christmas without three months salary reports www.odogwublog.com.