We Would Commence Strike Once Lock Down On Universities Are Lifted – SSANU

THE Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has warned that if the demands of the non-teaching are not addressed immediately by the Federal Government, it would lead to strike immediately schools reopened.

The National Vice President of SSANU, Mr. Alfred Jimoh, at a briefing in Ibadan, warned  that the hope of having a peaceful post COVID-19 industrial atmosphere in universities would be a mirage, if issues such as unpaid arrears of earned allowances, inadequacies of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS, double deduction of pension were addressed.

According to him: “It is indeed very saddening that the Earned Allowances of our members which arose from the 2009 FGN/SSANU Agreement are still largely unattended to as government and its agents have often acted in respect of this issue in a way that suggests that for as long as the Earned Allowances of the Teaching staff are paid, even though if that of the Non-Teaching staff are not paid, there would be little or no problem.

He said it is both erroneous and fallacious, adding that SSANU is seriously mobilizing to engage the government over the unpaid arrears of the Earned Allowances of its members across the country as soon as schools are reopened.

He noted that unless government attends to all the issues placed before it through various communications ; the hope of having a peaceful post COVID industrial atmosphere in University campuses and Inter University centres post COVID-19 might be a mirage.