The academic staff association of the Rumbek University of Science and Technology (RUST) have accused the institution of unwillingness to pay their salaries.
They said President Salva Kiir had authorized the payment of the salaries of all the civil servants and the staff of the public universities.
The dons expressed the sentiments on Wednesday.
Association member Benjamin Matur Madit told Radio Tamazuj that the delayed salaries had become a big challenge in South Sudan.
“I am directing my question to the president of this country,” he said.
“Mr President, you have made an order that every civil servant in South Sudan must receive a salary on time. Why is our case exceptional?”
“We have not received our pay since you issued your order and indeed, the Central Bank facilitated the payment for the rest of the civil servants.”
Madit wondered if there was a discrimination in releasing the money from the Central Bank to the beneficiaries.
Another association member, Garnop Makur, said that they had called on the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology for a feedback on how other four public universities received their January salaries while RUST was left out.
“We do not know who is between the university administration and the Ministry of Higher Education, or the Ministry of Finance or the Central bank.”
Daniel Kot Manyuon stressed that the RUST academic staff had not received their salaries, unlike the other public universities.
He said the RUST academic staff Tuesday deliberated on being excluded from the salary disbursement.
“We asked the minister for Higher Education to look into why we have not been paid,” he said.
RUST Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Administration and Finance Prof Ishraqa Khamis confirmed that the institution did not receive the salaries from the Central Bank.
She said the problem was not with the university administration.
“The ivory bank headquarters in Juba are saying that the Central Bank has no cash to give them. We don’t have anything to do with that,” Khamis said.