President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly ordered that 2000 varsity workers be sacked.
To react to this, the Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has called for an indefinite strike on December 24, 2015 to protest the decision by the Buhari-led administration.
"The national president of SSANU, Mr Samson Ugwoke, during a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, December 18 has this to say,
The implementation of this directive would be a gross violation and breach of the SSANU/FGN 2009 agreement, which explicitly stated that the University shall bear full capital and recurrent cost of University Staff primary schools.
“It is further shocking to note that till date, the Federal Ministry of Defence still funds the capital and recurrent costs of over 100 Army Children Schools, Command Children Schools, Navy Primary Schools and Air Force Schools; while the Ministry of Police Affairs still funds its Police Children Schools, all from the Federal Treasury.
“We are surprised that an agency of government, the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, could continue with this callous, wicked, insensitive and ill-intentioned agenda, despite our calls, letters, press releases and publications on the issue.
“With the advent of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, we had written series of public and confidential letters on same with no positive response.” Ugwoke stressed.
The Unionist revealed that SSANU has given Thursday, December 24 as deadline to the federal government, as part of the efforts to prevent the over 2000 workers of the universities from being sacked.
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