The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has issued a one-week ultimatum to the Nigerian government. They demand the payment of their members’ withheld salaries or face industrial action.
In a statement jointly signed by SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, and NASU Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, the workers urged the government to pay the withheld salaries, similar to the payments made to their academic counterparts, who received four months’ worth of owed salaries.
JAC stated that it has written protest letters to the Chief of Staff to Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, over the exclusion of the non-academic staff when the government decided to pay part of the withheld salaries, but that the letters were not responded to two weeks after they were submitted.
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“We, therefore, use this opportunity once again to call on the federal government to do the needful within the next seven days, as the Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSANU should not be held responsible should the wheel of administration and corporate governance be grounded to a halt in the university sector, as we have exercised enough patience.
“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 statement reads.
