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SSANU Plans Indefinite Strike As FG Sacks 2000 Workers by unuane1(m): 10:23am On Dec 20, 2015 |
The Senior Staff Association of the
Nigerian Universities has called for an
indefinite strike on December 24, 2015
to protest a recent decision of the
Federal Government to sack 2,000
university workers across the country
by January, 2016.
The National President of SSANU, Mr.
Samson Ugwoke, said during a press
briefing in Abuja on Friday that the
National Salaries, Income and Wages
Commission, and the National
Universities Commission had written
letters of termination to 2,000 members
of staff of the universities.
Ugwoke said that the senior staff union
of the universities had already
dispatched letters to the Ministry of
Education, the NUC and the National
Salaries, Incomes and Wages
Commission to withdraw the letters of
termination issued to varsity workers of
the University of Ilorin, Federal
University of Technology, Akure, Usman
Dan Fodio University, Sokoto and
others.
He said that SSANU also urged the
Education Ministry and the other
agencies to ensure immediate
withdrawal of similar letters to vice
chancellors to terminate the
appointment of personnel of university
staff primary schools.
He said the letter dated December 17,
2015 also copied President
Muhammadu Buhari, the President of
Senate, Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Mr.
Yakubu Dogara, the Minister of Labour
and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige and
others.
Ugwoke added that the 2,000 workers
affected in the planned retrenchment
exercise were drawn from 31
universities and were employed by the
councils of the various institutions to
make the requisite contribution to
educational development in the
institutions and the society over the
years.
The SSANU leader noted that the
directive to sack the workers who are
expected to leave service in January
2016 was contained in a circular said to
have been written and signed by a
Deputy Director in the Ministry of
Education, Mr. E.O Fayemi, on behalf of
the minister.
He stated further that the circular dated
April 21, 2015, was attached with a
memorandum and report from the
National Salaries, Income and Wages
Commission dated March 2014 and
February 2014 respectively.
According to him, the commission
responded to the circular by directing
the removal of personnel of staff
schools and other institutions affiliated
to the universities from the payroll.
He said, “The implementation of this
directive would be a gross violation and
breach of the SSANU/FGN 2009
Agreement, which explicitly stated that
the University shall bear full capital and
recurrent cost of University Staff
primary schools.
“It is further shocking to note that till
date, the Federal Ministry of Defence
still funds the capital and recurrent
costs of over 100 Army Children
Schools, Command Children Schools,
Navy Primary Schools and Air Force
Schools; while the Ministry of Police
Affairs still funds its Police Children
Schools, all from the Federal Treasury.
“We are surprised that an agency of
government, the National Salaries,
Incomes and Wages Commission, could
continue with this callous, wicked,
insensitive and ill-intentioned agenda,
despite our calls, letters, press releases
and publications on the issue.
“With the advent of the administration
of President Muhammadu Buhari, we
had written series of public and
confidential letters on same with no
positive response.”
He said that 90 per cent of the pupils of
the university staff schools were
children of the staff of the institutions
stressing that the schools were
established alongside other academic
components of the universities in some
cases.
The unionist said SSANU had to give
the December 24, 2015 deadline to the
Federal Government as part of the
efforts to prevent the over 2000 workers
of the universities from being sacked.
Several efforts by Saturday PUNCH to
get the response of ASUU National
President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, was resisted
because he said, “I am out of the
country and you don’t expect me to
answer you from abroad.”
Also when contacted, the Special
Assistant (Media) to the Minister of
State for Education, Anthony Akuneme,
directed our correspondent to the office
of the Education Minister, Adamu
Adamu.
But several calls and SMS to the
Assistant Director of Press in the
Education Ministry, Abdul Onu, were not
replied. http://www.punchng.com/buhari-sacks-2000-varsity-workers/ |
Re: SSANU Plans Indefinite Strike As FG Sacks 2000 Workers by jonathanOz: 10:26am On Dec 20, 2015 |
APC! Change! |
Re: SSANU Plans Indefinite Strike As FG Sacks 2000 Workers by otokx(m): 10:42am On Dec 20, 2015 |
Unbelievable |
Re: SSANU Plans Indefinite Strike As FG Sacks 2000 Workers by Technocrat1759(m): 10:54am On Dec 20, 2015 |
I dnt understand this change anymore o... Why will there be massive sacks in a country where its senator still collect wardrope and newspapper allowances coupled with fleets of modeled cars. How much do this workers earn. Anyway. |
Re: SSANU Plans Indefinite Strike As FG Sacks 2000 Workers by swagaholic: 11:01am On Dec 20, 2015 |
Lord pls, let d remaining 3years be like 3days na.... we can't wait again they promised change, their stupid supporters dint bother 2 ask them d kinda change dey meant...... KAI BUHARI |
Re: SSANU Plans Indefinite Strike As FG Sacks 2000 Workers by Nobody: 11:35am On Dec 20, 2015 |
Something is missing. What were the criteria for selecting the sacked workers? Are they ghost workers? Are they incompetent? ... This administration is being too harsh on Nigerians in the name of recruiting money for their 6 trillion naira budget. Electricity goes high, Petrol goes high, salary is depreciating, the salary is not even paid on time, yet we still buy 4.2billion naira cars for senators, we still buy newspaper for them and give them wardrobe allowance. When you sack one staff you have rendered some other persons poor, those who depend on the sacked staff for school fees, feeding etc. |
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