ACTIVITIES at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, were on yesterday paralysed as workers went on strike, protesting against higher taxes. Leaders of the three labour unions at the university — Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, Academic Staff Union of Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union — barricaded all the roads leading to the university, preventing vehicular movements into the school premises. They accused the university authorities of deducting an ‘outrageous’ percentage of their salaries as tax payable to Oyo State government, which they said had not contributed to infrastructural development of the university.
The chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Dr. Ademola Aremu, said that the university authorities, on the orders of the state government, were deducting between eight and 10 percent of their gross salary as tax as opposed to the five per cent deducted in other institutions in the state. He said, “we would want to know why the state government is being partial in collecting taxes from workers in the state”
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