Staff commit 1% of February salary to Haiti

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ising from a Joint Action Committee meeting last Thursday (February 4, 2010), the staff unions of the University of Ilorin have resolved that all staff members will donate one per cent of their February salary towards their humanitarian assistance scheme to the earthquake victims in Haiti.

According to a statement co-signed by the Chairmen, Dr. S.Y. Omoiya (of Academic Staff Union of Universities), Engr. P.A. Oddiah (of National Association of Academic Technologists), Mr. M.A. Alfanla (of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities) and Mr. A.O. Ayodele (Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Tertiary Institutions), the office of the Bursar is authorised to deduct one per cent of the February salary of staff members towards the Haiti appeal fund. (Contd. on page 4)

Earlier in a meeting of the unions and the religious leaders with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Management Services), Prof. Albert O. Olayemi, all parties agreed that the interactions with various segments of the University indicated that staff of the University have the milk of kindness flowing in them and everyone is willing to assist Haitians who have been rendered ill and homeless by the devastating earthquake that rocked the country last month in which at least 150,000 people died.

Prof. Olayemi noted that a date of an appeal fund to be presided over by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Is-haq O. Oloyede, will be announced soon during which stakeholders would make donations and all proceeds would be harvested.

Both Prof. A.G.A.S. Oladosu, the Chief Imam of the University, and Prof. Gabriel Olatunji of the St. Aquinas Centre, University of Ilorin, indicated that their congregations would be further mobilised to donate generously to the victims. Religion, they said, teaches love and compassion and every true believer in God knows as such.

The appeal fund will be formally launched at the University where other stakeholders like students would also make their donations.