The Non-Academic Staff of Federal Universities in Nigeria have vowed that their ongoing strike will continue until their demands are met by the federal government.
The non-teaching staff union comprise of three main unions including Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Associated Institutions (NASU) and the National Association Academic Technologists (NAAT).
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They operate under the umbrella of Joint Action Committee (JAC) and have been on a nationwide strike which enters the 78th day on Tuesday.
However, in a chat with SaharaReporters, the Chairman of University of Lagos (UNILAG) branch of Non-Academic Staffs Union of Universities, Comrade Kehinde Ajibade, accused the federal government of insensitivity to the plight of the workers.
He sought that the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, ensured that government fulfil its part of the agreement reached in 2009 with workers which led to the call off of similar strike in 2009.
“Until the federal government honour our agreement, we would not resume. The federal government should do the needful, respect our agreement and meet our demands,” said Ajibade.
In the same vein, Acting Chairman of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, UNILAG branch, Comrade Gbenga, expressed his disappointment that the federal government has failed to live up to the terms of the agreement it signed with the union after a previous two – week warning strike.
“There was a 2-week warning strike, which we suspended because we signed a memorandum of agreement with the federal government. The memorandum stipulates payment of our two years allowance, implementation of a ruling of Industrial Court that workers in the universities’ staff schools should be absorbed to the university, end in the usurpation of duties of non-teaching staff by the teaching staff among other things. But terms of the agreement has not been met by the federal government until this moment of total strike,” he said.
He, therefore, added that the responsibility of determining how soon the strike will be called off is in the hands of the federal government.
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