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Members of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), University of Lagos (UNILAG), on Wednesday protested against the sudden suspension of its strike by their executives.
The aggrieved members said they were not duly carried along by their leaders before the strike was suspended last Saturday.
The leadership of JAC of SSANU and NASU had in a statement on Saturday asked all its members nationwide to resume on Wednesday.
However, instead of resuming, the UNILAG branch members took to protest against the suspension of the strike.They carried placards with various inscriptions such as ‘We are tired of General Secretary Adeyemi Peters and Mohammed Ibrahim of SSANU, they must go!’, ‘We are not civil servants.’
The JAC of NASU and SSANU embarked on a national industrial action on March 27, 2022, and called it off on August 20, 2022.
Some members SSANU and NASU who spoke with newsmen said they were not told, adding that a congress was supposed to be held before the suspension of the strike.
A former chairman of SSNAU, UNILAG chapter, Mr Oriwaye Adefolalu, said JAC of SSANU and NASU goofed by calling off the strike they embarked upon, towards pressurising Federal Government to perform its constitutional duties, without carrying along their members at their respective branches.
He said: “I am not the kind of person that can deceive you, records are there,the incumbent leadership of SSANU is not truthful. Initially, I thought they didn’t know what they were doing but they do.
“All they are after is their personal gain. The situation is getting worse every moment. I am 100% convinced that the suspension of the strike was stage-managed by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to save his job. What Adamu did was brain washing and greasing of their hands.”