UNIVERSITIES TO EMBARK ON STRIKE BY FEBRUARY 5 SAYS NASU & SSANU

 SSANU AND NASU ANNOUNCED FEBRUARY 5 AS THE COMMENCEMENT OF THEIR INDEFINITE STRIKE 

It was been reported that Universities across Nigeria are to go back on Strike due to Federal Government inability to resolve the Issues on ground, Says FG only resolve one out of Seven issues Partially.

The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU has announced February 5 as the commencement of their indefinite strike.

The union announced a two-week warning following the inability of the Federal Government to address their concerns. The unions claimed they had made series of attempts to draw attention to the Government over latent and growing industrial tension in the university system but all to no avail.

The two unions had last week embarked on a three-day protest over the alleged government failure to honor the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, signed with them on 20th October 2020.

Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Joint Action Committee of the unions led by the National President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim, and General Secretary NASU, Prince Peters Adeyemi, said out of the seven issues under contention, only one has been partially resolved and other issues are left out.

The list of the issues are as follows:- 

•   Inconsistencies in IPPIS payment
•  Non-payment of Earned Allowances
• Non-payment of arrears of national minimum wage
• Delay in a renegotiation of FG/NASU and SSANU 2009 agreement
• Non-payment of retirement benefits of outgone members. 

Other issues listed by the union leaders include teaching staff usurping headship of non-teaching units in clear violation of conditions of service and establishment procedures, neglect and poor funding of state universities, and non-constitution of visitation panels for universities.

The NASU General Secretary, Prince Adeyemi, Joint Action Committee said:

“Out of the seven issues, only one has been partially resolved while the other six issues have not been attended to by the Federal government, three months after the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed.

It is in line with the resolution of our members nationwide that the leadership of the joint action committee of NASU and SSANU hereby resolve as follows;

That members of NASU and SSANU shall embark on an indefinite, comprehensive, and total strike with effect from midnight of Friday, 5th February 2021.

That two weeks’ notice effective from today, Friday 22nd January 2021, is hereby given to the government and relevant stakeholders of this development.”

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