SSANU, NASU Commence 5-Day Protest

Ololade Adeyanju/

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU today commenced a five-day protest at the University of Ibadan.

The UI chapter of the unions said they were embarking on the protest to demand N30 billion earned allowance owed them by the Federal Government’s and also to compel government to obey court judgment on staff school’s salaries.

The peaceful protest, which recorded a large turnout of staff, affected smooth vehicular movements in and out of the school premises.

Comrade Samson Ugwuoke, President of Joint Action Committee, stressed that the protest was aimed at sending a notice of strike to the Federal Government.

He appealed to members to ensure full compliance with the directive in order to show its relevance to the university system.

His words: “The recent sharing of money where the money collected from the ministry of education signed by the director of tertiary education, allocating 80 percent of the money to ASUU and only 20 percent to the three non teaching staff unions is not acceptable to us.

“We reject in total the 20 percent allocated to our members, rather we demand from the federal government the sum of N30 billion as part of the earned allowance of non teaching staff from 2009 to 2016 and we call on government to hasten the audit of university earned allowances so that we will now how much is paid to who and how much remains.

“The way and manner the money is being shared contrary to any known accounting procedure, any known international best practice should be condemned by all, it is rather a fraud. This house calls it a fraud and calls for investigation.

“We call and demand that government should release as a matter of urgency, N30 billion for non teaching staff

“JAC has approved protests from the branches, protests at the zonal levels of our unions and mother of all protests in Abuja for three days, before a deadline is given to the government for the mother of all strikes that will follow. The protest will commence on Monday 15th July 2019.”

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