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By Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The Joint Action Committee(JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU) have declared a two-week warning strike.
This was announced on Friday in a memo signed by SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi. The memo was addressed to the leadership of the unions’ branches nationwide.
The JAC said the strike was necessitated by the failure of the Federal Government to react to its earlier letter threatening to commence an industrial action if its demands were not met.
According to the memo, the strike will take effect by midnight on Sunday, March 27.
“In view of the non-chalant attitude of the government to our demands, this is to direct our members in all universities and inter-university centres throughout the country to commence a two-week strike by midnight of Sunday, 27 March 2022, in the first instance as earlier conveyed to the Federal Government in our letter.
“Please note that the two-week warning strike should be comprehensive and total as no concession should be given under any guise,” the memo read.
The unions called for strict compliance and adherence to the directive by all branches of NASU and SSANU in the universities and inter-university centres.
News of this strike comes amidst an ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Earlier in March, the JAC had written to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, accusing the FederalGovernment of deception in its implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Memorandum of Action (MoA) reached with the government in October 2020, and February 202, respectively.
In the letter, the committee gave the government until March 27, 2022, to address its demands or it would begin a two-week strike action.