One hundred and fifty lecturers of the Cross River State College of Education and the College of Health Technology on Wednesday in Calabar staged a peaceful protest calling for their immediate reinstatement and payment of their unpaid salaries.
Speaking on behalf of the lecturers, Mr Emmanuel Nyador, the National Assistant Secretary, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, said they were no longer comfortable with the decision of the state government. He said that the unions were not against the state governments’ audit to delete ghost workers from the state payroll, but insisted that the 150 lecturers had been sacked unjustly.
“Also, the purported plan to reverse the salary of College of Health Technology to the civil service structure should be discouraged.“Outside Universities, College of Health Technology is the only institution in the state that trains Higher National and Post Graduate Diplomas and mobilise them for National Youth Service Corps programme,” he said.