THE debilitating crisis of non-payment of salary at the Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma has taken a worse dimension in the University being dragged before the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in the Benin Judicial Division for owing salaries of some staff for 27 months.
Angered by non-payment of their salaries for more than two years, Prof. Fredrick Ikechukwu Esumeh, Prof. Monday Lewis Igbafen and Dr. Zebedee Udo Mamudu of the Departments of Microbiology, Philosophy and Economics, respectively, have approached the Court, through Kingsley Obamogie, SAN, to seek amongst others, “A declaration that the failure and/or neglect of the Defendant (Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma) to pay the Claimant’s salaries and allowances since the 1st of January, 2022 till date is wrongful, inhuman and a breach of the subsisting contract of service between the parties.”
They prayed the Court to grant an Order directing the Defendant to restore payment of their salaries and “to pay all their outstanding salaries and allowances from the 1st day of January, 2022 till date of judgment” in their respective lawsuits.
