The National Association of Staff of Universities and Allied Educational Institutions (NASU) has condemned disparity in the computation of payment of Teaching Earned Allowance to its members and their tutorial counterparts.

The NASU Chairman in Anambra State, Humphrey Nwafor, who made the condemnation in an interview with The Guardian in Awka, the state capital, yesterday, lamented the payment of 27 per cent as the Teaching Earned Allowance to members of the Academic Staff of Universities (ASUU), while 17 per cent was approved for NASU.

According to him, the government has been paying the teaching staff the said allowance since 2009, while nothing has been paid to NASU.

Nwafor urged the government to do the needful considering that both members of the teaching and non-teaching staff co-exist and function effectively in educational and allied institutions all over the world.

He said that there are no educational institutions and graduate students in schools without NASU members playing a great role in that respect.

The NASU boss listed 13 chapters of NASU as Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU) Awka; Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi; Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University (COOU), Igbariam, Uli and Awka; Federal Polytechnics Oko; College of Education (Technical) Umunze; College of Health Sciences Nnewi; and Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe.

The rest are: Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board (ASUBEB); Post-primary School Service Commission (PPSSC); West African Examination Council (WAEC); Electronics Development Institute (ELDI); National Electronics Development Institutes (NEDI); and Anambra State Library Board.