- By Halimah Olamide
Academic activities in the nation’s universities are to grind to a halt as the Senior Staff Union of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) on Monday vowed to embark on a nationwide strike.
According to the SSANU president, Mohammed Ibrahim, who read the communiqué of the meeting to journalists in Abuja on Monday, the decision to embark on the warning strike was taken as a last resort since several protest letters and other communications with the Federal Government did not result in the payment of the withheld salaries.
The statement added: “If nothing is done by the Federal Government to positively address this situation and respond to our previous letters to them, the members of the two unions may be forced to meet soon to take all lawful and stringent decisions on the matter.” The decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a meeting which held in Akure at the weekend. The fresh development comes on the heels of the unions accusing FG of treating their members with “disdain”.
President Bola Tinubu had directed the payment of withheld salaries for university workers owing to their strike of 2022.
However, SSANU, NASU, and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) said they were yet to get salaries for the said period and had issued a one-week ultimatum about two weeks ago.
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