By Emmanuel Mafelah, mafelahemmanuel29@gmail.com
GBARNGA, Liberia- As staff at the Cuttington University in Suakoko, the central Bong County agitate for their salary arrears, the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal Church-run institution has reaffirmed its commitment to paying salary arrears.
The Board has also assured students about this commitment to pay staffers’ salary arrears.
Aggrieved workers of the University under the banner, “Concerned Workers of Cuttington University” have been staging a protest on the University’s Campus in demand of salary arrears owed them by the institution, threatening to continue, if the administration refuses to do so.
But the acting Chairman of the University Board and All Liberians Party political leader, Benoni Urey including the Superintendent of Bong Coubty, Esther Yamah Walker, have assured employees of the CU of the Board’s commitment to pay their salaries.
Speaking in an interview with journalists after the meeting on Wednesday, at the University’s campus near Gbarnga after a meeting with aggrieved staffers on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Superintendent Walker said the meeting was intended to reaffirm their obligation to meet up with salary arrears owed staffers of the University.
According to the Bong County Superintendent, last week there was a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between employees and the administration of the University to pay salary and arrears owed the University employees.
The Bong County Superintendent and member of the University’s Board used the medium to called on those who has financial obligations settle them in order to allow the university pay her employees.
Superintendent Walker maintained that the administration of CU will take the next two weeks in January and the whole of February to pay salary arrears owed employees of Cuttington, in order to allow students have access to quality education at one of Liberia’s leading private universities.
The Bong County Superintendent further vowed that she will make sure that the aggrieved employees of the University get their job benefits in the County.
For their part, the aggrieved Cuttington University employees expressed optimism that the Board will live up to its promise.