THE Senior Staff Association of
the Nigerian Universities (SSANU)
,Western Zone, yesterday
threatened to down tools if the
Federal Government decides to
fully implement the Needs
Assessment Report which it
described as poisonous to Non-
Academic Staff in universities.
Addressing newsmen on the
issues raised by the Prof. Yakubu
led Needs Assessment Committee
at a lecture held at the University
of Benin (UNIBEN), the National
Vice President and chairman
Western Zone, of the SSANU,
Comrade Alfred Jimoh, said the
association had earlier faulted the
composition of the Needs
committee set up by the Federal
Government to identify the gaps in
the university system.
He said the committee was not
only “lopsided but one sided
because it excluded both students
and the non-teaching staff in the
system and compromise only
members of the Academic Staff
and the then incumbent President
of ASUU. “The report of the
committee is laced with some
poisonous and odious
recommendations against the Non
teaching staff, which we call
satanic verses of Needs
Assessment Report”.
He said therefore that “one cannot
but wonder how government could
expect an objective and
dispassionate report from such a
warped and highly skewed
committee. True to type and as
anticipated by the Non teaching
staff of Nigerian universities, the
committee came out with a
voluminous document full of
graphics, illustrations and
pictorials which range from truth
to half truth and altar false hood.
“We the Non teaching staff Unions
particularly the Western zone of
the SSANU have at every fora
given warning to the Federal
Government to discard the
offensive parts of the Needs
report which seek to determine
the job Non teaching staff of
Nigerian universities and halt their
human development through
training and retraining” he said.
He further warned that the full
implementation of the report
would be resisted through
industrial action.

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