The Senior Staff Association of the Nigerian Universities has required an uncertain strike on December 24, 2015 to challenge a late choice of the Federal Government to sack 2,000 college laborers the nation over by January, 2016.
The National President of SSANU, Mr. Samson Ugwoke, said amid a press preparation in Abuja on Friday that the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, and the National Universities Commission had composed letters of end to 2,000 individuals from staff of the colleges.
Ugwoke said that the ranking staff union of the colleges had as of now dispatched letters to the Ministry of Education, the NUC and the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to pull back the letters of end issued to varsity specialists of the University of Ilorin, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto and others.
He said that SSANU likewise asked the Education Ministry and alternate offices to guarantee quick withdrawal of comparative letters to bad habit chancellors to end the arrangement of work force of college staff grade schools.
He said the letter dated December 17, 2015 likewise replicated President Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Senate, Bukola Saraki, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige and others.
Ugwoke included that the 2,000 specialists influenced in the arranged conservation activity were drawn from 31 colleges and were utilized by the boards of the different establishments to make the essential commitment to instructive improvement in the foundations and the general public throughout the years.
The SSANU pioneer noticed that the order to sack the specialists why should expected leave administration in January 2016 was contained in a round said to have been composed and marked by a Deputy Director in the Ministry of Education, Mr. E.O Fayemi, for the benefit of the pastor.
He expressed further that the round dated April 21, 2015, was joined with a reminder and report from the National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission dated March 2014 and February 2014 separately.
As per him, the commission reacted to the roundabout by coordinating the evacuation of faculty of staff schools and different organizations partnered to the colleges from the finance.
He said, "The execution of this mandate would be a gross infringement and rupture of the SSANU/FGN 2009 Agreement, which expressly expressed that the University might bear full capital and intermittent expense of University Staff elementary schools.
"It is further stunning to take note of that till date, the Federal Ministry of Defense still finances the capital and intermittent expenses of more than 100 Army Children Schools, Command Children Schools, Navy Primary Schools and Air Force Schools; while the Ministry of Police Affairs still supports its Police Children Schools, all from the Federal Treasury.
"We are shocked that an office of government, the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, could proceed with this unfeeling, naughty, obtuse and not well intentioned plan, regardless of our calls, letters, official statements and productions on the issue.
"With the approach of the organization of President Muhammadu Buhari, we had composed arrangement of open and secret letters on same with no positive reaction."
He said that 90 for every penny of the understudies of the college staff schools were offspring of the staff of the foundations focusing on that the schools were built up close by other scholarly parts of the colleges at times.
The unionist said SSANU needed to give the December 24, 2015 due date to the Federal Government as a major aspect of the endeavors to keep the more than 2000 specialists of the colleges from being sacked.
A few endeavors by Saturday PUNCH to get the reaction of ASUU National President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, was opposed in light of the fact that he said, "I am out of the nation and you don't anticipate that me will answer you from abroad."
Likewise when reached, the Special Assistant (Media) to the Minister of State for Education, Anthony Akuneme, guided our reporter to the workplace of the Education Minister, Adamu.
In any case, a few calls and SMS to the Assistant Director of Press in the Education Ministry, Abdul Onu, were not answered
