The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, will commence a nationwide strike from February 15, 2021 over the Federal Government’s failure to honour the MoU signed with the unions on October 20, 2020
Addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja, the non-teaching staff of the universities under the Joint Action Committee, said the reasons for embarking on the industrial action included the government’s poor handling of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, sharing formula of the N40 billion earned academic allowances and non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage.
Unions, led by the SSANU National President, Mohammed Ibrahim and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, said: “Out of the seven issues, only one has been partially resolved while the other six issues have not been attended to by government, three months after the Memorandum of Understanding was signed.”
The non-teaching staff noted that after the congresses held by its branches on Tuesday this week, 90 per cent of NASU members were in support of a strike and 10 percent stood against it. While 83 per cent of SSANU members were in support of embarking on strike, 11 per cent were against the strike and 6 percent were indifferent.
“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 government and relevant stakeholders of this development,” the JAC president said.
