SSANU, NAAT and NASU set to commence fresh strike

-Non-academic staff members of Nigerian universities threaten to resume strike.

-They accused authorities of using an unfair formula to distribute allocations between them and their academic counterparts.

Another strike looms over public universities in Nigeria.

The joint action committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU)  have announced plans to resume their suspended strike.

The announcement of the strike action was contained in a joint statement made available to newsmen on Thursday night.

The statement, signed by the national presidents of NAAT, Sani Sulaimon; NASU, Chris Ani; and SSANU, Samson Ugwoke disclosed the strike will resume on Monday, December 3.

The non-academic staff workers are rejecting the sharing formula been used to allocate the recent financial allocation to universities.

They claim the current distribution formula is unfair to them as it arrogates unfair dues to their academic counterparts.

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“We wrote a letter to the federal ministry of education to explain the criteria for the allocation and we gave them seven days notice to do the needful. But the date has elapsed without a response from the federal government,” they said.

Recall the unions suspended their strike action after signing a memorandum of understanding with the federal government and gave the government a month to start implementing the agreement.

Revelations on Thursday, however revealed the government is yet to meet their demands, two months after reaching  an agreement with the unions.