Give FG 2-weeks ultimatum to address issues
Non-showing staff in the Universities, Friday
declared that they will continue on what they depicted as an aggregate and
exhaustive cross country strike on fifth February 2021 after the failure of the
Federal Government to address their interests.
The non-showing staff under the umbrella of Joint Action Committee, JAC, involving the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU likewise declared the quick beginning of a fourteen day cautioning strike. Review that the associations have made arrangement of endeavors to cause to notice the Government over dormant and becoming modern strain in the college framework however all without much of any result.
The two associations had a week ago left on a three-day fight over the supposed government inability to respect the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, endorsed with them on twentieth October 2020. Also, the associations have bemoaned over the challenges individuals were going through because of enlistment in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS and the inconsistency in the sharing of the N40 billion Earned Allowances to the four college based associations where the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU alone was distributed 75 percent of the complete total. Tending to writers in Abuja, JAC of the associations drove by the National President of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim and General Secretary NASU, Prince Peters Adeyemi, said out of the seven issues under dispute, just one was part of the way settled. They recorded the issues which remember irregularities for IPPIS installment, non-installment of Earned Allowances, non-installment of back payments of public the lowest pay permitted by law, delay in a renegotiation of FG/NASU and SSANU 2009 understanding, non-installment of retirement advantages of outgone individuals. Different issues are; encouraging staff usurping headship of non-showing units in away from of states of administration and foundation techniques, disregard and helpless financing of state colleges, and non-constitution of appearance boards for colleges. In the readied text read by the NASU General Secretary, Prince Adeyemi, JAC stated: "Out of the seven issues, just one has been part of the way settled while the other six issues have not been taken care of by the public authority, a quarter of a year after the Memorandum of Understanding was agreed upon."
JAC noticed that after the congress held at its branches across the country, 90% of NASU individuals were on the side of a strike and 10% remained against devastating exercises in colleges. While 83 percent of SSANU individuals were on the side of leaving protesting, 11 percent were against the strike and six percent were aloof. "It is in accordance with the goal of our individuals cross country that the initiative of the joint activity board of trustees of NASU and SSANU thusly resolve as follows; "That individuals from NASU and SSANU will set out on an uncertain, extensive, and absolute hit with impact from 12 PM of Friday, fifth February 2021. "That fourteen days' notification compelling from today, Friday 22nd January 2021, is thus given to the public authority and pertinent partners of this turn of events."
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