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Ssanu Strike by Wittywizard(m): 8:02pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
Strike Update: SSANU
shuns meeting with
Labour minister.
THE Senior Staff Association of
Nigerian Universities (SSANU),
on Monday, shunned an invitation by the Minister of
Labour and Productivity, Chief
Emeka Wogu, over the ongoing
nationwide strike of SSANU,
the Non-Academic Staff Union
of Universities (NASU) and the National Association of
Academic Technologists
(NAAT), which formally kicked off on
Monday across
universities in the country. After the
meeting between the Secretary to the Government of
the Federation (SGF), Chief
Anyim Pius Anyim and the
three unions failed to resolve
the crisis, the unions declared that a
seven-day nationwide strike would commence on
Monday in all the federal and
state universities across the
country. In a swift reaction, the Ministry
of Labour sent a letter to the
University of Abuja, Gwagwalada headquarters of
SSANU, inviting the union to an
emergency meeting with the minister on
Monday. But neither the SSANU
President, Comrade Samson
Ugwoke nor his representative attended the meeting. When contacted
on phone by
Campus Guide, Comrade
Ugwoke confirmed that the
letter got to him but added
that he was out of the office before the letter came. However, he
stated that he
could not attend the meeting
because SSANU was the only
union invited out of the three
unions involved in the struggle. Meanwhile, the strike , on
Monday, paralysed academic
activities at the University of
Ibadan (UI). The gate at the main
entrance
to the university was shut to vehicular traffic, while
students, who are writing their
second semester examination,
had to trek long distance to their
examination venues. The strike led to the
postponement of post- graduate examination in the
university’s Faculty of
Education but the examination
held in the Department of Sociology,
where arrangements
had been made to fill the gap created by the striking
workers. The chairman of the
university’s chapter of SSANU,
Mr Wale Akinremi, in an
interview with journalists,
explained that the strike was called to protest the non- implementation
of the 2009
agreement between the
Federal Government and the
union. He added that the “illogical and
unscientific” recommendation by the Babalakin Committee on
the needs assessment of
universities that non-academic
staff in the universities be trimmed also
informed the
strike action, adding that it was unreasonable to
contemplate sack of workers
with the gloomy outlook of the
nation’s economy. “Virtually all state
governor
have done the financial implementation of the
agreement, while the Federal
Government which signed the
agreement and made its implementation
optional for
state governments is dilly dallying. “The committee’s
recommendation is obnoxious.
I can speak for the University
of Ibadan, where even with the
recent employment by the
university, we are still grossly understaffed. You cannot work
in this university and say you
will close at 4:00 p.m., I don’t
know how many workers
afford that luxury,” he said. NASU
chairman, Olusola Fatoki Cole, while addressing the
workers, who assembled at the
main entrance to the
university, said workers could
no longer afford to wait endlessly for the
implementation of the agreement which the Federal
Government promised would
be factored into the 2010
budget but did not. “This calls for a
serious fight
between us and government. When we come back in January
descending on the Federal
Government, Nigerians will see
the kind of leadership we have in Nigeria.
In 1999, there were
three children of governors in U.I But I do not think there is
any in the school now. And this
is a first class university. They
now send their children to private
universities abroad. He decried the
nonchalance of the Federal Government to the
well-being of workers, saying
that the peace meeting called
at the instance of government
to make the unions shelve the strike did
not yield fruitful results. |
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