Olu Samuel, Lokoja
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU Federal University Lokoja has said that despite suspending its six months strike in August and with the signing of MOU by the Unions and the Federal Government to allow for ample time to implement the signed agreement, its members are suffocating and bleeding in silence.
The Chairman, SSANU, Federal University Lokoja, Comr. Adedeji Kazeem Suarau, stated this in a Press Conference held at the College of Health Sciences Conference Hall, Adankolo Campus, Lokoja on Thursday .
He said that although the union was not planning to disrupt the system he called on the federal government to be responsible and heed to their demands which center round improvement on the condition of service and welfare of it’s members.
The SSANU in it recommendation to the smooth academic running of the University, called for the reconstitution of the renegotiation committee to include SSANU and NASU representatives and to continue the negotiations of 2009 agreement
SSANU also asked that the Federal Government Joint Committee on the peculiarities of University on IPPIS should include the representatives of all University based unions
Similarly, SSANU wants NUC to give directives to stop unsurpation of headship position of the non teaching by the teaching counterparts, while also calling on the Federal Government to pay the omitted members in the payment of minimum wage arrears.
Still as part of their demands SSANU urged the Federal Government to pay promotion arrears of University Staff the 2018 balance, 2019, 2020 and 2022 and implementation of 2021 promotion.
It also urged the Federal Government to ensure that the personnel budget of the Universities should be adequately funded to cater for salaries shortfall in the Universities, as well as asked the Government to pay backlogs of salaries owed SSANU on compassionate grounds.
SSANU also called on Federal Government to pay the third party deductions for the months of December and November 2022 as a matter of urgency.