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Lecturers from Waubahar Ghazal University on Thursday Taking to the streets Demanding that they be paid eight months’ salary.
The protesters also demanded that the National Treasury clear their medical arrears and air tickets from 2019 to 2024.
Last week, the lecturers stopped their protest and demanded that the national government respond to their demands.
“We want eight months’ salary, plus medical allowance and air tickets for 2019, no salary, no exams on Monday,” university staff chanted as they moved out of the main campus.
Joseph Lual Dario, president of the Association of Academic Staff, told Radio Tamazuj that if the government does not urgently pay lecturers’ salaries, students will not be able to sit their scheduled exams for Monday.
“Today, we are taking to the streets. Why are we taking to the streets? Because we are demanding eight months of salary. We have been working for eight months and have not received our salary, so please listen to our voice, the government, the national government, and especially the Minister of Finance in Juba. We need to get our salary today, not tomorrow,” said Dario.
“We need to pay ticket allowances now, not tomorrow. We need medical allowances from 2019 to 2024. We also need to adjust salaries,” he added.
Dario insisted that unless their demands were met, the exams would not take place on Monday.
Jacob Kati Machar, a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Education’s Chemistry Department, said he had been waiting to get his salary for eight months but to no avail. He said his family was starving and he no longer had money to send his children to school.
“How can I work when my children are hungry? How can I work when my children are taken away from school because of school fees? This has to stop,” he said.
Articasta Paulino said they were tired of waiting.
She said: “We have not received salary for 8 months, and our children have been sent away from school. We have suffered too much, enough is enough, we now need 8 months’ salary.”
Last month, the university’s Academic Staff Association sent a seven-day notice to the National Treasury, demanding they pay their salaries or stop working.
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