The senior staff association of Nigeria Universities known for short as (SSANU) likewise the Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Education Institutions (NASU) had today being the 20the day of the month of August suspended their strike actions after coming to agreement with the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu
According to the Statement released by its chairperson, The suspension of the strike is to take effect from Wednesday being the 24th day of the month of August after the Federal Government remitted N50 billion to pay earned allowances for members of SSANU, NASU and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Confirming the suspension of the strike actions, the statement released by the committee of SSANU and NASU, disclosed that the suspension was for an initial two months.
It reads, “The two months is to allow government implement the agreements reached, Part of the agreement is the decision of the government to set aside the sum of N50 billion for the payment of earned academic and earned allowances, cogent decision on the University Peculiar Personnel Payroll System (U3PS), release of the white paper on university visitation panel and funding of the universities”
“On the poor funding of federal institutions, the Minister said he directed the National Universities Commission (NUC) to ensure that all the schools are up-to-date on what they are supposed to do, otherwise sanctions will be visited on any institution that defaults”
“The Minister of Education also gave an assurance that no member of the unions that participated in the strike will be victimised. The Minister said President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to devout 15 per cent of the national budget to education”
“On the salary payment system, the Minister said the alternative payment systems provided by ASUU JAC of NASU and SSANU did very well. He added that the Federal Government is awaiting the report of the technical committee it set up before taking action on the matter.”
In other news, the lingering strike of public universities doesn’t seems to be coming to its end anytime soon as the minister of education Adamu Adamu disclosed that ASUU rejected the government’s proposal over the “no work, no pay” rule.
Confirming the statement of the minister, ASUU’s President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke noted “If we agree on that, therefore, the lectures we should have given for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 should be allowed to go so we start a new session, 2022/2023, in September,”
“Therefore, by July next year, I would go on my leave as we used to have in those days so that the backlog is gone. All the lectures that remain; all the two sets of admissions that JAMB has given that are waiting should become irrelevant.”
He further went on to add that “other unions go on strike and come back, all those periods for which you are on strike, you don’t need to do the backlog of work”
“But for ASUU, when we go back today, we are going to start from the 2020/2021 session. For these two sets of students that have been admitted by JAMB, we have to teach them over these periods to ensure that we meet up with the system”
“So, we are going to do the backlog of the work we have left behind. We are not going to start today and say ‘This session is 2022/2023, therefore, all these two sets of people that have been admitted by JAMB are cancelled. We have to take another admission for the 2023/2024 session” he declared.
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