UCH workers lament non-payment of 23 months salary arrears

UTH retirees petition Adeleke over non-payment of their gratuities
No fewer than 78 employees of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, have lamented non-payment of their salaries since January 2021 by both the hospital management and the Federal Civil Service Commission.

The affected workers, who are under the non-clinical members of staff category, accused the management of snubbing them each time they seek audience over the delay in getting their entitlements.

One of them, who craved anonymity, told The Guardian that the affected employees were duly absorbed by the management of the UCH in 2020.

He said they received salary until November 2020 before payments were suddenly stopped.

MEANWHILE, efforts to speak with the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Dr. Jesse Otegbayo, were not successful, as he did not pick phone calls put across to him.

RELATEDLY, retirees of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, yesterday, petitioned the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, over non-payment of their gratuities by the state government since 2012.

In a ‘Save Our Soul’ letter to the governor, signed by three leaders of the affected retirees, including Akindele Kudirat, Ayodele Mary and Mrs. Alice Fatona, dated December 22, 2022, a copy of which was sighted by The Guardian, the pensioners, numbering 19, said they retired between 2012 and 2017 and that five years after, they had not been paid.

They said that their counterparts at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, had been paid their gratuities since last year.

They wondered why their own have not been paid.