Just In: Details emerge as SSANU, NASU threaten Tinubu’s govt with strike

• Members of SSANU and NASU comprise threatened to embark on strike can also fair aloof the federal govt fail to pay them their withheld salaries
• The non-academic participants talked about the federal govt paid ASUU participants however refused to pay them
• The unions talked about the govt.didn’t enact anything else after they wrote a hiss letter to the Chief of Workers to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the Minister of Training, Tahir Mamman

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FCT, Abuja – The federal govt has been given a seven-day ultimatum to free up withheld salaries of participants of the Senior Workers Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Workers Union of Tutorial (NASU).

The Joint Motion Committee of the associations talked about they’ll embark on strike if the salaries seized by the administration of old President Muhammadu Buhari all over their strike in 2022 are now not released.

As reported by The Punch, this became contained in a joint letter signed by the President of SSANU, Muhammed Ibrahim and the Unprecedented Secretary of NASU, Peters Adeyemi, on Friday, March 1.

The unions talked about the federal govt released four months withheld salaries to participants of the Academic Workers Union of Universities however failed to free up the withheld salaries of non-academic workers.

It became gathered that the unions had written hiss letters to the Chief of Workers to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, and the Minister of Training, Tahir Mamman, on February 13, 2024.

The letter posted by plot of SSANU X address (formerly is named Twitter) @SSANU_NATIONAL, partially learn:

“We, therefore, consume this quite diverse once all once more to name on the Federal Authorities to enact the considered necessary in some unspecified time in the future of the following seven days because the Joint Motion Committee of NASU and SSANU can also fair aloof now not be held in worth can also fair aloof the wheel of administration and company governance be grounded to a cease in the College sector, as we comprise exercised enough endurance.

“If nothing is executed by the Federal Authorities to positively address this anxiousness and respond to our outdated letters to them, the participants of the 2 Unions will be compelled to fulfill soon to take all fair and stringent choices on the topic.”

FG begins price of ASUU’s withheld salaries

Within the period in-between, Legit.ng reported that the federal govt released withheld salaries to ASUU participants. Numerous sources in some unspecified time in the future of the educational community in Abuja confirmed this update on Monday, February 19.

The head of ASUU at the Federal College of Abilities, Minna, Prof. Gbolahan Bolarin, verified that funds comprise commenced.

Supply: Legit.ng