The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Taraba State University, Jalingo has issued a two-week ultimatum to Governor Agbu Kefas and the university management to meet her earlier signed Memorandum of Action (MoA), or risk strike action.

In a communique issued at the end of the Union’s Regular Congress (URC), and signed by the Chairman and Secretary, Comrade Bitrus Joseph Ajibauka and Mamki Joshua Atein, respectively, the union expressed disappointment over Kefas’ failure to honour the MoA to meet the union leadership and come up with template and modalities for payment of the arrears by the first week of February 2025, described the governor’s action as a clear violation of MoA’s tenents.

“Pursuant to ensure that Taraba state government and the University management meet all our outstanding demands, the Congress in her regular meeting held on 7th. August 2025, unanimously resolved and give the Taraba State Government and the University Management two weeks, with effective from 7th August, 2025 to settle all the outstanding issues to avert the resumption of the total comprehensive and Indefinite Strike action embarked on the 11th December, 2024 effective on the 9th December, 2024 that was earlier suspended on the 26th January, 2025.

“The State Government’s failure to honour the MoA to meet the Union leadership to come up with template and modalities for payment of the arrears by the first week of February, 2025, is a total violation of the tenents of the MoA.

“We want the state government and the university management to meet the memorandum of Action (MoA) signed at the tripartite meeting held on Saturday, 25th January, 2025 between the Ministry of Tertiary Education, the University Management with the Union at the Senate Chambers, DDI Building, Taraba State University, and the subsequent reminder sent on the 14th February, 2025, within two weeks or risk strike action by the union.

“We want the government to settle all the outstanding salaries/allowances. The unpaid full salaries of September 2022, the unpaid full salaries of October 2022, the withheld 28 per cent of June, 2022 salary balance, the withheld 51 per cent of November, 2022 salary balance, the withheld 44 per cent of December 2022 salary balance.

“We want the state government to put up modalities for the payment of the remaining 90 per cent of the total accumulated sum for Earned Administrative Allowances (EAA), that the state government failed to meet in the first week of February 2025.

“We demand the immediate activation and implementation of the approved State-Defined Pension Scheme for the staff of Taraba State University to include, the benefits for deceased and retired staff, which were earlier promised to be promptly computed and paid to, or their families.

“We wish to state here that the inaction of the Taraba State Government and the University Management to the aforementioned, is a clear violation of tenets of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) signed on the 25th January, 2025. Failure to meet the above demands within two weeks with effect from 7th. August 2025, the Union shall act in accordance with the provisions of her Constitution and the extant laws.

“We shall resume the December 9th 2024 to January 26th 2025 earlier suspended strike if the state government and the university management fail to settle all the outstanding issues within the stipulated two weeks,” the communique read.