SSANU raises alarm over fresh crisis in varsities

In a communiqué issued at its 24th regular Executive Council Meeting held at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu State at the weekend, SSANU said the agreement has been due for review since August, 2012.President of the union Comrade Samson Ugwoke and its Public Relations Officer Comrade Nad Aboribo, who signed the […]

In a communiqué issued at its 24th regular Executive Council Meeting held at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu State at the weekend, SSANU said the agreement has been due for review since August, 2012.
President of the union Comrade Samson Ugwoke and its Public Relations Officer Comrade Nad Aboribo, who signed the communiqué charged government to start the review of the agreement without further delay.
SSANU notes that “going by the terms of the 2009 FGN/SSANU Agreement, the agreement fell due for review with effect from August, 2012. Council frowns at the culture of the government signing agreement with unions, with little or no commitment to full implementation of the terms of the agreement which is one of the causes of frequent industrial crises in the country, particularly in the Nigerian public University system.”
It called on the Federal Government “to as a matter of urgency put machineries in motion for the review of the agreement without further delay before it degenerates into another round of crisis.”
Specifically SSANU condemned the non-implementation of the Earned Allowances component of the 2009 Agreement to its members on monthly basis and called for its regular payment “to avoid situations that may aggravate another industrial crisis in the universities.
SSANU also called on Federal Government to expedite action on the payment of the arrears to their members in research institutes affiliated to universities, saying that these category of workers are yet to be paid any arrears of the Earned Allowances.