Workers in tertiary institutions in Ekiti State have described the new tax policy by the government of Ayodele Fayose as satanic, oppressive, punitive, draconian, unacceptable and is therefore totally rejected.
Rising from a meeting at the weekend, the workers under the aegis of Joint Association of Staff Unions in Tertiary Institutions in Ekiti State, emphasized that the new tax imposed on them by the government of Fayose is “satanic, oppressive, punitive, draconian, unacceptable, condemnable and rejected in its entirety.”
The workers said that a government that claims to be masses-friendly should not have come through the backdoor to compound the already unbearable economic conditions of the same people.
They also condemned the alleged withholding of the subventions to all state-owned educational institutions for the past six months which has financially crippled them and subjected them to dehumanization, abject poverty and immeasurable hardship.
The unions said they foresee what they called “paralysis of the whole system which could make the worst to happen” if the situation does not change.
In the communique conveying the decisions of the workers which was read by the association’s Coordinator at EKSU, Professor Olu Olufayo, they canvassed a downward review of taxes and also called for a tax holiday for workers as a result of the present economic hardship.
The institutions involved are Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti (EKSU), College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, College of Health Technology, Ijero Ekiti, Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) and Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti. [myad]
