RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Presidency orders VC, registrar to refund salaries’ overpayment [Response frfom Bolaji Aluko]

My presumption is that Dr. Aluko's appointment as Vice Chancellor was under a written contract. The contract's conditions, provisions, and terms should be specific on the details of his approved compensation package. The presidency's letter to him alleges salary/allowances' overpayment The letter demands full refund of unauthorized receipts. It should not be too difficult to establish that there was or not, any overpayment outside the contract. An unimpassioned independent audit should easily resolve this matter by matching received compensation, with compensation entitlement as per his contract of employment, if all the books are kept as they should be. in my opinion, it is too soon in the day to misconstrue a standard administrative process at work by giving unearned credits to imaginary enemies.

oa

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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Presidency orders VC, registrar to refund salaries' overpayment [Response frfom Bolaji Aluko]

This is an embarrassment to someone who has served his country and humanity diligently well.
The letter written to the VC. Prof. Bolaji Aluko should be withdrawn with an apology. And I humbly suggest that members of this forum join hands together to condemn this sinister act where the directive came from.
Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

On Jun 29, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <toyinkaidara@gmail.com<mailto:toyinkaidara@gmail.com>> wrote:

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From: Imperial imperial_ltd@yahoo.com<mailto:imperial_ltd@yahoo.com> [Naijadreamteamintellectuals] <Naijadreamteamintellectuals@yahoogroups.co.uk<mailto:Naijadreamteamintellectuals@yahoogroups.co.uk>>
Date: 28 June 2015 at 22:47
Subject: [Naijadreamteamintellectuals] Re: [africanworldforum] Re: [develop-nigeria] Presidency orders VC, registrar to refund salaries' overpayment



Prof,

Your explanation makes a lot of sense . Kindly demand for the immediate publication of the rejoinder in the same Punch newspaper as soon as possible.



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On Jun 28, 2015, at 22:25, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com<mailto:alukome@gmail.com>> wrote:


Dan Akusobi:

Thanks for your confidence in me, and for your logical inquiries....much appreciated.

If this news is a result of the proverbial "enemies," then no weapon formed or fashioned against me will succeed. And if those enemies come through one door, they will have to escape through seven doors.....that is what my Bible says, and I believe it! :-)

Moving on...

As to the allegation themselves, enemies or not, when questions are raised of public officials, accountability is essential. Be sure of this: they are ABSOLUTELY untrue, and there is no disaggregation of the salaries. I am not getting A SINGLE PENNY of SALARY beyond what is approved. What is being considered additional is ALLOWANCE to three of us DIASPORA VCs (Otuoke, Kashere, Wukari) all of us who are on SABBATICAL without PAY from our foreign institutions, but who yet require to do two CO-PAYMENTS of both our health insurance and our pension contributions for our families that still live abroad, and to which we intend to return after our national service stint - all things being equal. Without those allowances, which amount to almost 80% of our basic salaries, we will be left with almost no money from our local salaries, and not a single one of us would have accepted the VC job - unless they want us to steal government money!

Which we were not ready to do, and have NOT done....

In any case, we are in the fifth and final year of our VC terms - so why is it just now that some UNVERIFIED letter is purportedly being written?

Inquiring minds want to know.....

By the way, the PUNCH reporter Simon Utebor called me for clarifications about the allegation before going to press. I gave him the above information, and he promised to use it. But when the news came out in Punch, and my clarification was not included, I called him to query the omission. He too wondered why, and said he would find out and get back to me. He has not yet - but I await him. Again, this is my first volley.


In any case, this is my first volley - more to come against those proverbial enemies..!

There you have it.


Bolaji Aluko



On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 8:14 PM, daniel Akusobi <dakusobi@gmail.com<mailto:dakusobi@gmail.com>> wrote:

Which enemies of VC Aluko are at work ?
It is ONLY BUHARI, that is an enemy to any impropriety. The rest of our enemies would be his agents.
Anyway, V C Aluko can now present consultancy service charges for his roles during the elections . He kept us on track on PVC, formulated some policy directives on state creations and on new energy policies in Nigeria. Lol
Let's pray the recovery commission visits other universities and other relevant government agencies for same reasons they visited Otueke.

We are fond of accusing our politicians for looting while ignoring that perm secs and other top civil servants may be equally guilty.
Maazi Aluko won't have a fight over this if he believes the charges are right.

The commission did not say Aluko stole and we won't say such either. Aluko won't steal.

There are other smarter ways any VC can rob us. It cannot be by salary discrepancies.
A lot of profs charge sex for grades and some charge money. In that way they rob us all by producing graduates that cannot compete well in the work force and skills overseas. They rob our families of money in addition to the salaries we pay them.

My concern though is our governments rob us too . We spend a lot clothing our workers, buying them cars, paying for their cooks and stewards, paying for their expense on women, buying them furniture and probably paying for their wedding.
Our slow to action president may have to look into this especially into clothing our none uniformed civil servants.
Dan
Dan

On Jun 28, 2015 1:23 PM, "'Imperial' via Develop Nigeria" <develop-nigeria@googlegroups.com<mailto:develop-nigeria@googlegroups.com>> wrote:
Prof Bolaji Aluko is this true ?

It appears your enemies are at work .



http://www.punchng.com/news/presidency-orders-vc-registrar-to-refund-salaries-overpayment/

Presidency orders VC, registrar to refund salaries' overpayment

The Presidency, through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, has directed the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, to refund over-payment of salaries running into millions of naira.

The Registrar of the university, David Suowari, was also directed to refund cumulatively the sum of N130,692.71 per month in excess of his due salary.

The over-payments were said to have been discovered during the commission's visit to the institution on May 12, 2015 to carry out inspection of FUO's remuneration practices vis-a-vis the extant government's pay policy.

The VC and the Registrar were accused of appropriating certain allowances to themselves that were not approved by the government.

These concerns were raised in a letter from NSIWC to Aluko, signed for the Chairman of the Commission by the Director of Compensation, Chike Ogbechie.

The commission said, "The findings of the inspection in respect of your institution (Federal University, Otuoke) were as follows:

"The Vice-Chancellor was being paid total emoluments of N1,970,476.76 monthly, whereas he should not earn more than N922,810.23 if he were paid furniture allowance en bloc earlier, or N1,043,176.79 if he were being paid furniture allowance.

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"Much of the difference was attributed to certain allowances which were not approved by the government."

In the case of the Registrar, the commission said the Registrar was being paid N130,692.71 in excess of his due salary of N502,580.25.

The commission also said the university disaggregated its staff salaries, against government's policy of pay consolidation.
The NSIWC, therefore, directed the university to stop "the wrongful practices" and comply with relevant rules and rates.
The commission added, "We hereby direct the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrar to refund the cumulative overpayments made to them.


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