The Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities has mentioned it can floor actions in universities throughout the nation if the withheld salaries of its members will not be paid.
This was in response to the exclusion of members of SSANU from the fee of the withheld salaries by the Federal Authorities which solely commenced fee for the Tutorial Workers Union of Universities on Monday.
The chairperson of ASUU on the Federal College of Know-how, Minna, Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, confirmed the event to our correspondent.
“Sure, it’s true. Cost has began rolling in.”
The salaries had been withheld when the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay coverage’ towards ASUU and SSANU who launched into a strike that lasted eight months in 2022.
Nonetheless, President Bola Tinubu, in October 2023 authorized the discharge of 4 of the eight months ASUU’s withheld salaries.
Nonetheless, the Nationwide President of SSANU, Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, in an interview with The PUNCH complained bitterly in regards to the union’s exclusion from the fee of the withheld salaries.
He insisted that it was a terrific injustice towards SSANU, saying the union was on no account indignant that ASUU was paid but it surely deserved to be paid too.
Ibrahim mentioned, “That is simply horrible, we came upon that solely ASUU’s fee was authorized. As it’s, there may be rigidity on all of the campuses we’re not indignant that they’re paying ASUU, however they need to know that it isn’t solely ASUU that went on strike.
Why ought to our case be completely different? The federal government ought to pay everybody who works within the college. We will’t assure steady peace in our universities. Now we have written to the Chief of Workers and Minister of Schooling and we escalated it to Nigeria Labour Congress. There’s a palpable hazard if SSANU will not be paid their backlog.”
He additionally mentioned it was confirmed on the workplace of the Accountant Common and IPPIS that it was solely ASUU’s fee that was authorized.
“We came upon on the Chief Accountant Common workplace that it was solely ASUU that was authorized, we even have affirmation from IPPIS that the fee doesn’t embrace SSANU.”
He hinted that SSANU members would meet in the present day ( Tuesday) to take a choice on the event.
Ibrahim mentioned, “Our members will meet tonight, or tomorrow morning to determine. We’re below stress; it is a clear injustice as no college can function with out the non-teaching employees.”
Additionally, Nationwide Vice-President, SSANU, Abdussobur Salaam, mentioned, “The Joint Motion Committee of NASU and SSANU ought to due to this fact not be held accountable ought to the wheel of administration and company governance be grounded to a halt, as we have now exercised sufficient endurance with the federal government, particularly within the face of the tough financial circumstances occasioned by insurance policies of the present administration led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
In the meantime, ASUU, Abuja zone, on Monday, lamented the dying of a few of its members.
It attributed the premature dying to the untold hardship within the nation exacerbated by lecturers’ poor remuneration and unfavorable working circumstances.
The union, in a press release, mentioned no fewer than 46 lecturers misplaced their lives in universities below the Abuja zone particularly the College of Abuja, Federal College of Know-how, Minna, Federal College, Lafia, Nasarawa State College, Nasarawa and the Ibrahim Babaginda College, Lapai. The union mentioned it not too long ago misplaced an eminent Professor of Fisheries, Johnson Oyero of the Federal College of Know-how, Minna resulting from his incapacity to afford high quality healthcare.
