National Executive Council of the Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria Universities has threatened to
embark on a nationwide strike if their meeting with
the Federal Government fails to address their
demands.
The union is asking for payment of the Earned
Allowance and rejection of the NEEDS Assessment
Report in universities.
SSANU President, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, on Friday
after the union's NEC meeting at the Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology, Ogbomosho, said the
university workers would commence a nationwide
strike if the meeting with the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, failed to
address the issues in contention.
Ugwoke said the strike had been delayed as a result
of the intervention of the House of Representatives.
He, however, lamented that despite the meeting, the
fund required for the payment was not captured in
the 2013 budget.
He said, "All the (university) unions were together at
a meeting on the invitation of House Committee on
Education. The committee invited us and a motion of
urgent importance was moved.
"Our meeting with them was very robust, interesting
and successful. At the end, the House suggested
that the executive should raise a supplementary
budget covering the Earned Allowance.
"To our surprise, the National University Commission
decided to write that it will take N157bn. We said it
is not true. How they came about that figure was not
clear to us. We were not carried along.
"We were surprised to read in the newspapers that
some members of ASUU and the NUC went to the
Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Senator
Uche Chukwumerije, to present N157bn as money
needed for the payment.
"We have waited enough for the supplementary
budget. At the meeting with the Federal
Government, we expect a definite answer on the
payment of Earned Allowance. Anything short of
that, the NEC mandated us to declare a total strike
action."

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